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Outlying Public Institutions, Etc.— By virtue of an
arrangement between your Vestry and a gentleman in the office
of the Registrar-General, I receive, weekly, a return of the
deaths of Kensington parishioners occurring in public institutions
and other places outside the Parish. In Table 3
(Appendix) all such deaths, 230 in number (against 191, 183,
and 213 in 1885-6-7, respectively) are included. The deaths
occurred in the following institutions, viz.:—
St. Mary's Hospital 68
St. George's „ 30
West London „ 12
Middlesex ,, 6
King's College „ 6
Westminster ,, 4
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 2
St. Thomas's ,, 2
Charing Cross ,, 2
University College „ 1
Royal Free ,, 1
Brompton Consumption Hospital
(south branch) 7
Western District Hospital 25
Eastern ,, „ 4
North-Western,, „ 1
South-Eastern ,, ,, 1
Northern „ ,, 1
London Fever „ ,, 1
Cancer (Fulham Road) Hospital 5
Queen Charlotte's ,, 3
Children's (Paddington) „ 14
Children's (Great Ormond Street)
Hospital 3
Children's (Victoria) Hospital 4
Lock ,, 1
French (Soho) ,, 1
Heart Disease (Soho) ,, 1
Homoeopathic ,, 1
Station (Westminster) „ 1
Bolingbroke House „ 1
Samaritan „ 1
St. Raphael's „ 1
St. Gabriel's ,, 1
St. Elizabeth's Home 2
St. Saviour's ,, 1
St. John and St Elizabeth Home 1
Lying-in (St. John the Divine) ,, 1
Camberwell House Asylum 1
Paddington Workhouse Infirmary 4
St. George's Union ,, 1
Chelsea Parish „ 1
St. Giles's Workhouse 1
225
The deaths of five male parishioners, in addition to the
above, were recorded as follows:— One of a person who died in a
cab near St. Mary's Hospital; one drowned in the Grand Junction
Canal, Paddington (suicide); one who committed suicide at the
Zoological Gardens; and two of men who were killed by the
fall of a house in course of erection at Great Titchfield Street.
The deaths at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, at the Lock
Hospital, and at the Lying-in Home of St. John the Divine,
were of children born at those institutions. Deaths from
Zymotic Diseases occurred as follows:— Western District
(Asylums Board) Hospital, 25 (scarlet fever, 15; diphtheria, 6;
enteric fever, 3; measles, 1); Eastern District Hospital, 4
(diphtheria and enteric fever, 2 each); Northern District Hospital,