Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition of the Royal Borough of Kensington, etc., etc., for the year 1904
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Nine inquests were held; the cause of death was natural in one case, and injury in some
form in eight cases.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.—In the Kensington
portion of the Brompton Hospital there were 59 deaths, including two of parishioners. The
remaining 57 deaths, of non-parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill.—At this institution 537 deaths were
registered, all save one of which are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill.—The 16 deaths at this quasi-public iustitution, with
the exception of 2 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 321, 315, and 318,
respectively, were 339 in 1904. All of these deaths are included in the borough statistics. The
deaths occurred at the several institutions as follows:—
St. Mary's Hospital 65
St. George's Hospital 35
West London Hospital 22
Middlesex Hospital 6
Charing Cross Hospital 6
St. Thomas's Hospital 5
King's College Hospital 4
St. Bartholomew's Hobpital 4
University Hospital 3
London Hospital 2
Westminster Hospital 2
{Western Hospital 22
{North-Western Hospital 3
M.A.B {South-Western Hospital 1
{Northern Hospital 1
{Joyce Green Hospital 1
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 6
Brompton Hospital (south wing) 2
Children's Hospital, Paddington 12
Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde
Street 5
Victoria Hospital for Children 2
French Hospital 2
Homoeopathic Hospital 1
Chelsea Hospital for Women 1
Look Hospital, Dean Street 1
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 4
Mount Vernon Hospital, Hampstead 1
London Throat Hospital, Great Portland
Street 1
Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square 1
National Hospital 2
Convent Hospital, Shoreditch 1
Friedenheim 4
Hostel of St. John and St. Elizabeth 2
Invalids' Home, Highbury 1
St. Peter's Home 1
Royal Home for Incurables 1
Home for the Blind, Tollington Park 1
Public Baths, Queen's Road, Bays-
water 1
Holloway Prison 2
Chelsea Workhouse 1
Fulham Infirmary 1
Paddington Infirmary 1
Banstead Asylum 20
Horton Asylum 15
Han well Asylum 11
Norwood Asylum 7
Cane Hill Asylum 2
Claybury Asylum 2
Manor Asylum 2
Tooting Bee Asylum 2
Caterham Asylum 1
Colney Hatch Asylum 1
Darenth Asylum 1
Dartford Asylum 1
Ilford Asylum 1
Leavesden Asylum 1
Camberwell House Asylum 2
Peckham House Asylum 2
Bethnal House Asylum 2
Bookbinders' Asylum, Balls Pond
Road 1
Central London Sick Asylum 1
Sick Asylum, Hendon 1
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Other 23 deaths occurred without the borough, viz.: two of males by drowning in the
Thames and the Grand Junction Canal respectively; one of a male on the railway, and one of
a male and one of a female on railway premises; three of males and two of females in the street;
and eight of male and five of females on private premises.