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ages over 70. Seventeen of the deaths were of persons who
had been imported from other Metropolitan parishes ; seven of
the deceased had previously resided in Ireland, and three in the
Provinces ; three were stated to be of parishioners. The causes
of death were : diseases of the heart and lungs, 17; diseases of
the nervous system, 6; old age, 2; phthisis, cancer, ague
hernia and kidney disease, 1 each.
Two deaths from phthisis, of girls aged 14 and 15 respectively,
were registered at St. Elizabeth's Home, another Roman
Catholic Institution, also in Portobello Road.
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 farther side of the
Fulham Road, in the parish of Chelsea), were 73, viz.: males,
38, and females, 35. 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. The
Hospital, it may be added, was closed for repairs during the last
third of the year.
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, 375 deaths of non-parishioners were registered,
all of which are excluded from Table 3 (Appendix).
DEATHS NOT CERTIFIED.
Twenty deaths (against 20, 10, 12 and 25 in the four 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,
0.7 per cent., and in London, l.2 per cent. In England and
Wales the proportion was, 3.3 per cent., having, it may be added,
steadily declined from 4.7 per cent. in 1879. None of the 20