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diseases of the respiratory and circulatory systems, 18 ; cancer, 8 ;
old age, 2 ; diarrhoea, liver disease, rheumatism, Bright's disease,
and bed-sores, 1 each.
The Hospital foe 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 further side of the
Fulham Road, in the parish of Chelsea) were 134, viz. : males,
80, and females, 54. Four of the deaths were of parishioners,
and are included in Table 3 (Appendix), the remaining deaths,
of non-parishioners, are excluded from that Table.
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 is even larger than our own Parish
Infirmary, 404 deaths of non-parishioners were registered, all of
which are excluded from Table 3 (Appendix).
DEATHS NOT CERTIFIED.
Twenty-five deaths (against 20,10, and 12 in the three preceding
years) were returned as not having been certified, either by
a registered medical practitioner or by a coroner. The proportion
of uncertified deaths to total deaths was, in Kensington, 0*8 per
cent.; in London, 1*2 per cent.; in England and Wales, 3"4 per
cent. None of the deaths uncertified in Kensington occurred in
the practice of unregistered male practitioners. Six of the deaths
were registered on the information of midwives. Three of the
deceased persons had been out-patients at hospitals. In the
remaining cases there appears to have been no medical attendance:
the cases were reported to the Coroner, who did not deem
it necessary to hold inquests. The causes of death, as registered,
were: in six cases each, diseases of heart, lungs, &c., and
premature birth ; in seven cases, affections of the nervous system
(including convulsions 3); in two cases, whooping cough ; and in
one case each, phthisis, anaemia, burns, and " unknown."