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referred to, and were directed to " urge the advisableness of
paying a juryman a sum sufficient to compensate a workman
for actual loss of time incurred in performing that public duty,
and of making it compulsory that coroners' juries should be
summoned by rota." Subsequently the Council adopted a
report of the Committee, recommending that " where the jury
have been chosen strictly in rotation from persons in the
parish eligible for service, there may be paid to each person
summoned, but not exceeding 15 persons in all, two shillings.
This fee is for each attendance, irrespective of the number of
inquests the juror serves upon, and is to be paid only when
the juror applies for payment." The recommendation took
effect on the 1st of April, 1898.
INQUESTS.
Two hundred and four inquests were held on parishioners,
including 32 at places without the parish, mostly at public
institutions to which the deceased persons had been removed
for treatment. The cause of death is stated to have been
ascertained by post-mortem examination in 117 cases. Thirtyfive
inquests were held on the bodies of non-parishioners
who had died in Kensington. Of the 207 inquests in the
parish, 206 were held at the coroner's court at the Town
Hall, and 1 at the St. Marylebone Infirmary. It is now
some years since an inquest in Kensington was held at a
public house.

Of the 9 suicidal deaths, 2 belong to the Brompton subdistrict,
and 7 to the Town sub-district.