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Sixteen inquests were held : in each of seven cases a verdict of "natural death" was returned;
eight deaths were caused by accidents of various descriptions, one death was suicidal.
Outlying Public Institutions.—The deaths of parishioners at public institutions, etc.,
without the borough, which in the preceding three years had numbered 318, 339, and 324,
respectively, were 349 in 1906. All of these deaths are included in the borough statistics. The
deaths occurred at the several institutions as follows :—
St. Mary's Hospital 52
West London Hospital 25
St. George's Hospital 16
Westminster Hospital 9
Charing Cross Hospital 7
Middlesex Hospital 5
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 4
St. Thomas's Hospital 4
University College Hospital 4
Guy's Hospital 8
London Hospital 3
King's College Hospital 2
Western Hospital (M.A.B.) 26
Brompton Hospital (South Wing) 4
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 4
Children's Hospital, Paddington 14
Victoria Hospital for Children 3
Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde
Street 3
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 4
Chelsea Hospital for Women 1
French Hospital 8
St. Peter's Hospital 1
Hampstead General Hospital 1
Metropolitan Hospital, Hackney 1
National Hospital 1
St. Saviour's Hospital 1
Throat Hospital, Golden Square 1
Samaritan Free Hospital 1
Friedenheim 4
St. Peter's Home 2
St. Joseph's Hospice, Hackney 8
Hostel of St. John and St. Elizabeth 1
Home for Aged Poor, St. Marylebone 1
Home for the Blind, Islington 1
St. Ann s House, Stoke Newington 1
St. Marylebone Workhouse 1
Camherwell Infirmary 1
Lambeth Infirmary 1
Paddington Infirmary 1
St. George's Infirmary 1
St. Pancras Infirmary 1
Banstead Asylum 26
Hanwell Asylum 20
Horton Asylum 9
Cane Hill Asylum 7
Tooting Bee Asylum 5
Caterham Asylum 4
Claybury Asylum 4
Colney Hatch Asylum 4
Dartford Asylum 8
Leavesden Asylum 2
Manor Asylum 1
Camberwell House Asylum 8
Bethlem Royal Hospital 8
Belmont Asylum 2
Central London Sick Asylum, Hendon 2
Middlesex County Asylum 1
City Asylum, Stone 1
Biimingham City Asylum 1
Epileptic Colony, Epsom 1
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Other 28 deaths occurred without the borough; viz., by drowning, three of males, in the
Thames, the Grand Junction Canal, and the Serpentine respectively; one of a male on the railway;
one of a male in the street; one of a male in Hyde Park ; one of a male on Wormwood Scrubbs;
one of a male in Westminster Abbey; and fourteen of males, and six of females on private premises.
Deaths from diseases of the zymotic class occurred at public institutions without the borough
as follows:—Western Hospital 26 (diphtheria 11, scarlet fever 10, enteric fever 3, measles 2); St. Mary's
Hospital 2 (diarrhcea) ; Children's Hospital, Paddington 2 (diarrhcea); Middlesex Hospital 1
(diphtheria); Banstead Asylum 1 (enteric fever); and Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street 1
('whooping.cough).
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
There was but 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 1.5 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 : —