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St. Mary Abbot's Hospital.—This Institution, which is also situated in Marloes Road,
provides medical and surgical treatment for the sick and disabled.
Number of beds for male adults 244
Number of beds for female adults 295
Number of adult admissions during the year ended
31st December, 1926 3,621
Average daily number of adult admissions 9.9
Number of beds for children 120
Types of cases (children) admitted
All types, except infectious cases
which are passed on to the
Fever Hospitals.
Number of children's admissions during the year
ended 31st December, 1926 1,257
Births 328
1,585
Average daily number of children's admissions 4.3
Last ascertained cost per head at St. Mary Abbot's
Hospital 5s. 10d per day.
Out-door Relief.
Number of cases receiving out-door medical treatment
during the year ended 31st December, 1926
No. 1 District (West of Lad-
broke Grove) 302
No. 2 District (East of Lad-
broke Grove) 293
No. 3 District (South of
Notting Hill Gate and
Holland Park Avenue 37
Total 632
GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Although Kensington may be regarded as a central London Borough, it is curious that there
is only one General Hospital within the Borough boundary, namely, the Kensington, Fulham and
Chelsea General Hospital. There are, however, the West London Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital
and St. George's Hospital just outside the Borough.
The work performed at the Kensington, Fulham and Chelsea General Hospital for the year
1926 is as follows:—
1.—In-Patients.
(a) Number of Beds and In-Patients.
Number of Beds available for use 19
Average number of Patients resident daily throughout the year 16
Number of In-Patients in the Hospital at the beginning of year 13
„ „ „ admitted during year 337
„ „ „ in the Hospital at the end of the year 14
Average number of days each Patient was resident 17.75
II.—Out-Patients.
(a) Numbers.
Total number of new Out-Patients 6,202
Total number of Out-Patient Attendances 26,116
Number of Patients on books at the beginning of the year 410
Number of Casualty Patients 1,823
Number of Casualty Attendances 5,469
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.
As is now generally known, the movement to provide in the crowded district of North
Kensington an efficient hospital for children, with an Out-patient Department which women also
could attend, originated from a private conference convened by H.R.H. The Princess Louise,
Duchess of Argyll, in Kensington Palace in January, 1924. The old Kensington Dispensary and
Children's Hospital in Church Street was housed in outworn insanitary premises and the growth
of London had swept the poorer members of the community away northwards. The work begun
after the formation, at a public meeting in February, 1924, of a Hospital Re-establishment
Committee, with the then Mayor of Kensington, Alderman Archibald J. Allen, at its head, has
continued unceasingly, and much progress has been made. In April, 1925, the Committee purchased
an excellent site at the corner of St. Quintin Avenue and Wallingford Avenue in North Kensington,
and in September of the same year sold the old building, unfit for further use, in Church Street.