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Outlying Public Institutions.— By virtue of an arrangement
between your "Vestry and an official in the Registrar-General's
Department I receive a weekly return of the deaths of Kensington
parishioners in public institutions outside the Parish. In Table
3 (Appendix) all such deaths, 178 in number, are included. The
deaths occurred in the following institutions, viz.:—
St. George's Hospital 44
St. Mary's „ 37
West London „ 11
Charing Cross ,, 5
University College „ 5
St. Thomas's ,, 3
Royal Free „ 2
Middlesex „ 2
St. Bartholomew's,, 2
London „ 1
Guy's „ 1
Westminster „ 1
Brompton Consumption Hospital
(south branch) 3
Cancer Hospital (Chelsea) 5
Women's „ (Soho Square) 1
„ „ (Fulham Road) 3
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 2
St. John and St. Elizabeth's Hospital
(Great Ormond Street) 1
Childrens' Hospital (Great Ormond
Street) 2
Childrens' Hospital (Paddington) 3
London Fever Hospital 3
„ Small-Pox Hospital 1
Asylums Board Hospitals:—
Western 15
South-Western 10
Caitaiia (Ship) 2
Darenth Camp 1
Temperance Hospital 1
Bethlem „ 1
Samaritan „ 1
German „ 1
Military Hospital (Westminster) 1
"Home" Hospital 1
Bolingbroke House Hospital 1
Mildmay Memorial „ 2
St. Raphael's „ 1
St. Peter's Home, Kilburn 1
Paddington Workhouse 1
Total 178
St. Joseph's House, Portobello Road.— The deaths at
this quasi-public institution are included in Table 3 (Appendix).
They were 30 in number: males 8, and females, 22. All of the
deaths save two (one of an inmate and one of a "sister") occurred
at ages over 60, 15 of them at ages over 70. Fourteen of the
deaths were of persons who had been imported from other metropolitan
parishes; nine of the deceased had previously resided in
Ireland, two on the Continent, and two in the Provinces. The
previous residence in three cases was not stated. The causes
of death were: diseases of the nervous system, 10; diseases of
f 2