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the respiratory and circulatory systems, 12; phthisis, 2; kidney
disease, 2; cancer, old age, ulcer, and anaemia, 1 each.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the
Chest.—The deaths at this institution, or rather in that part of it
—the original hospital—situated in Kensington (a "south branch"
having been established on the south side of the Fulham Road,
in the parish of Chelsea) were 148, viz.: males, 87, and females,
61: 25, 31, 42 and 50 in the four quarters respectively. The
ages at death were: under 20 years (youngest 13), 24; between
20 and 40, 95; between 40 and 60 (oldest 58), 29. Nine of the
deaths were of parishioners, and are included in Table 3
(Appendix); the remaining deaths, of non-parishioners, are excluded
from that table. Eighty-two of the deceased had
previously resided in the metropolis, 19 in the suburbs of London,
and 38 in the Provinces. The causes of death, as registered,
were: Phthisis (consumption or decline) alone, in 122 cases,
phthisis, associated with other forms of tubercular disease, in six
cases; phthisis, with other lung or heart diseases, in seven cases,
heart and lung diseases in ten cases, other diseases in three
cases.
Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill.—At this hospital,
which is under the control of the Guardians of the Poor of the
Parish of St. Marylebone, and which is even larger than our own
Parish Infirmary, 454 deaths of non-parishioners were registered,
all of which, for the reasons already stated, are excluded from
Table 3 (Appendix).
DEATHS NOT CERTIFIED.
Ten deaths (just half of the number recorded in 1883) were
returned as " not certified," the deceased persons not having been
attended in the last illness by any registered medical practitioner.
The proportion of deaths not certified to total deaths was, in
London, 1.3 per cent., in Kensington, 0.3 per cent, in all England
and Wales, 3.6 per cent. None of the deaths uncertified in
Kensington occurred in the practice of unregistered male