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Kensington 1903

The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1903

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Thirteen inquests were held; the cause of death was natural in six cases, and injury in some
form in seven cases.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.— In the Kensington
portion of the Brompton Hospital there were 79 deaths, including two of parishioners. The
remaining 77 deaths, of non-parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill.—At this institution 531 deaths were
registered, all of which, save 5 of parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill.—The 19 deaths at this quasi-public institution, with
the exception of 3 of parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
Outlying Public Institutions.—The deaths of parishioners at public institutions, etc.,
without the borough, which in the three preceding years had numbered 283, 321, and 315,
respectively, were 318 in 1903. All of these deaths are included in the borough statistics. The
deaths occurred at the several institutions as follows:—
St. Mary's Hospital 50
St. George's Hospital 26
West London Hospital12
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 6
University Hospital 6
Middlesex Hospital 6
St. Thomas's Hospital 4
Westminster Hospital 4
King's College Hospital 3
Charing Cross Hospital 1
Guy's Hospital 1
Western Hospital 35
M.A.B. North — Western Hospital 1
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 5
Brompton Hospital (south wing) 2
Children's Hospital, Paddington 9
Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde
Street 6
Victoria Hospital for Children 1
Infants' Hospital, Denning Road,
Hampstead 1
French Hospital 2
Homoeopathic Hospital 2
Hospital for Women, Euston Road 2
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 6
Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street 1
Great Northern Hospital 1
Grosvenor Hospital 1
Hampstead Home Hospital 1
Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square 1
National Hospital 1
North-West London Hospital 1
St. Saviour's Hospital 1
Samaritan Free Hospital 1
Station Hospital, Rochester Row 1
Hostel of God 4
Friedenheim 3
Hostel of St. John and St. Elizabeth 3
St. Peter's Home 2
Salvation Army Maternity Home 1
St. Anne's House, Stoke Newington 1
Holloway Prison 1
Fulham Workhouse 1
Paddington Workhouse 1
St. Giles's Workhouse 1
Fulham Infirmary 2
Chelsea Infirmary 1
Paddington Infirmary 1
Hanwell Asylum 17
Banstead Asylum 15
Horton Asylum, Epsom 14
Colney Hatch Asylum 12
Caterham Asylum 5
Cane Hill Asylum 4
Dartford Asylum 4
Clay bury Asylum 3
Leavesden Asylum 2
Darenth Asylum 1
Camberwell House Asylum 1
City of London Asylum 1
Licensed Victuallers' Asylum 1
Peckham House Asylum 1
Middlesex Asylum 1
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Other 13 deaths occurred without the borough, viz.: two of males by drowning in the
Thames and the Grand Junction Canal respectively, and one of a female in the Serpentine; one of
a male on the railway; two of males in the street; and four of males, and three of females, on
private premises.