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Outlying Public Institutions.— By virtue of an
arrangement entered into between your Vestry and an official
in the department of the Registrar General, I have been
supplied, during the past year, with a return of the deaths of
Kensington people in public institutions outside the parish.
In Table 3, all such deaths, 160 in number, are included, and
consequently all deaths of non-parishioners at Brompton
hospital—heretofore included in our vital statistics by way
of compensation for an unknown number of deaths of
parishioners occurring outside the parish — have been
excluded. The 160 deaths occurred in the following institutions,
viz:
St. George's Hospital 42
St. Mary's 44
Middlesex ,, 10
Charing Cross „ 5
University College „ 4
St. Bartholomew's,, 3
St. Thomas's „ 3
London ,, I
Guy's 1
West London „ 4
Cancer „ 4
Brompton Consumption Hospital,
(south branch) 4
North London Consumption Hospital 1
Western District, (Fulham) Hospital 10
South Western District, (Stockwell),, 1
Childrens' Hospitals 7
Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and St.
John's Maternity Home (children 4) 5
Bethlehem Hospital 3
Military Hospital, Westminster 3
St. Raphael's Hospital 1
Homeopathic ,, 1
St. Peter's Home, Kilbum 2
Paddington Workhouse 1
Total 160
St. Joseph's House.—The deaths at this institution,
which are included in Table 3 (Appendix) were 28, viz.: males
12 and females 16; all at ages over 60, seventeen of them
at ages over 70. Fifteen of the deceased had come from
Ireland, seven from the provinces, six belonged to London.
The causes of death were: diseases of the heart and lungs, 15:
of the brain, including paralysis, 4; cancer, 3; albuminuria,
2 ; other diseases, 4.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the
Chest.—The deaths at this institution, or rather in that
part of it situated in Kensington, a new hospital having been
built on the south side of Fulham Road, in the parish of
Chelsea, were 121, viz.: males 76, and females 45: 21, 29,
42, and 29 in the four quarters of the year respectively. The
ages at death were: under 20 years, (youngest 13), 21;