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Twelve inquests were held: in each of six cases a verdict of "natural death" was returned;
the other six deaths were caused by accidents of various descriptions.
Outlying Public Institutions.—The deaths of parishioners at public institutions, etc.,
without the borough, which in the three preceding years had numbered 315, 318, and 339,
respectively, were 324 in 1905. All of these deaths are included in the borough statistics. The
deaths occurred at the several institutions as follows:—
St. Mary's Hospital 79
St. George's Hospital 27
West London Hospital 14
Charing Cross Hospital 7
St. Thomas's Hospital 5
Middlesex Hospital 3
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 3
King's College Hospital 1
Guy's Hospital 1
London Hospital 1
M.A.B. Western Hospital 35
North Western Hospital 1
Brompton Hospital (South Wing) 4
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 2
Children's Hospital, Paddington 14
Victoria Hospital for Children 4
Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde
Street 2
North — Eastern Children's Hospital 2
Chelsea Hospital for Women 2
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 2
Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square 1
National Hospital 1
St. Saviour's Hospital 1
Friedenheim 2
Hostel of St. John and St. Elizabeth 1
St. Peter's Home 1
St. Thomas's Home 1
Home for Sick Children, Sydenham 1
Paddington Workhouse 1
Fulham Infirmary 1
Banstead Asylum 16
Horton Asylum 9
Hanwell Asylum 18
Norwood Asylum 7
Colney Hatch Asylum 6
Cane Hill Asylum 5
Leavesden Asylum 6
Claybury Asylum 2
Caterham Asylum 1
Dartford Asylum 1
Tooting Bee Asylum 1
Camberwell House Asylum 4
Friern Barnet Asylum 2
Metropolitan Benefit Asylum, Balls
Pond Road 1
Middlesex County Asylum, Wandsworth
1
Epileptic Colony, Epsom 1
United Service Club 1
296
Other 28 deaths occurred without the borough; viz., by drowning, two of males and one of
a female in the Thames, and two of males in the Grand Junction Canal; two of males and one of
a female at railway stations; five of males in the street; and eight of males, and seven of females
on private premises.
Deaths from diseases of the zymotic class occurred at public institutions without the borough
as follows:—Western Hospital 31 (scarlet fever 21, diphtheria 4, enteric fever 6); Children's Hospital,
Paddington 3 (diarrhœa 2, whooping-cough 1); St. Mary's Hospital 2 (diarrhœa); Victoria Hospital
for Children 2 (enteric fever 1, whooping-cough 1); North-Eastern Children's Hospital 2 (diarrhœa);
West London Hospital 1 (diarrhœa); Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street 1 (whoopingcough);
Horton Asylum 1 (diarrhœa); Hanwell Asylum 1 (diarrhœa). One death from enteric
fever took place at a private house in Paddington.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
There was not one death in the borough that was not "certified," either by a registered
medical practitioner or by a coroner. In England and Wales the deaths not certified were 1.6 per
cent. of totals deaths; the proportion in London was 0.2.
The subject of uncertified deaths was considered, in the Session of 1893, by a Select Committee
of the House of Commons, appointed "to inquire into the sufficiency of the existing law
as to the disposal of the dead for securing an accurate record of the causes of death in all cases,
and especially for detecting them when death may have been due to poison, violence or criminal
neglect." The recommendations of the Committee were summed up in ten paragraphs, of which
the first two were as follows:—