Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]
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St. Mary's Hospital 62
St. George's Hospital 89
Charing Cross Hospital 9
West London Hospital 6
Middlesex Hospital 4
St. Thomas's Hospital 2
Westminster Hospital 2
Guy's Hospital 2
University College Hospital 2
King's College Hospital 2
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1
London Hospital 1
Royal Free Hospital 1
Brompton Hospital (south wing) 3
Western Hospital 43
North-Western Hospital 13
South-Western Hospital 11
Fountain Hospital 4
Northern Hospital 1
North-Eastern Hospital 1
Gore Farm Hospital 1
Children's Hospital. Paddington 9
Victoria Hospital for Children
Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road 7
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 6
German Hospital 3
French Hospital 2
National Hospital 2
London Temperance Hospital 2
Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square 2
Homoeopathic Hospital 1
Throat Hospital, Golden Square 1
Royal Hospital for Incurables 1
Samaritan Free Hospital 1
Lying-in House of St. John the
Divine 1
St. Elizabeth's Home 2
St. Peter's Home 2
St. Camillo's Home 1
St. John's Home, Lewisham 1
St. Luke's House 1
Friedenheim House of Peace 4
St. Vincent's Orphanage 1
Southwark Workhouse 1
Mile End Infirmary 1
Paddington Infirmary 1
Hanwell Asylum 11
Banstead Asylum 9
Ilford Asylum 8
Cane Hill Asylum 7
Darenth Asylum 6
Leavesden Asylum 5
Caterham Asylum 4
Colney Hatch Asylum 4
Camberwell House Asylum 2
Hoxton House Asylum 1
Licensed Victuallers' Asylum 1
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Other twenty-seven deaths occurred without the parish,
viz., four by drowning (one male and one female in the Serpentine,
one male in Regent's Canal, and one female in the River
Thames); six of males in the street; two of males in vehicles; two
of males on railway premises; one male in prison; one female in
a police station; and seven of males and four of females in
private houses.
Deaths from diseases of the zymotic class, occurred at
public institutions without the parish, as follows:—Western
Hospital, 41 {scarlet fever, 21; diphtheria, 13; measles, 5;
enteric fever, 2); North-Western Hospital, 13 (diphtheria, 9;
scarlet fever, 4); South-Western Hospital, 10 (scarlet fever, 4;
diphtheria, 4; enteric fever, 2); Fountain Hospital, 4 (scarlet
fever, 2; diphtheria, 2); St. Mary's Hospital 2 (diphtheria);
St. George's Hospital 2 (diphtheria); Northern Hospital 1
(scarlet fever); King's College Hospital 1 (diphtheria);
Children's Hospital, Paddington, 1 (diphtheria); St. Thomas's
Hospital 1 (enteric fever); and West London Hospital 1
(enteric fever.)