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Kensington 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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213 and 230 in 1886-7-8 respectively), are included. The
deaths occurred in the following institutions, viz.:—
St. Mary's Hospital 61
St. George's Hospital 33
West London Hospital 10
Middlesex Hospital 6
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 5
St. Thomas's Hospital 4
Kind's College Hospital 3
London Hospital 3
Charing Cross Hospital 1
University College Hospital 1
Brompton Consumption Hospital
(south branch) 2
Western District Hospital 55
North-western,, „ 1
Cancer Hospital (Fulham Road) 3
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 3
Children's Hospital (Paddington) 13
Ditto (Great Ormond Street) 1
Children's (Victoria) Hospital 3
Poplar Hospital 1
Throat (Golden Square) Hospital 2
Heart Disease (Soho) Hospital 1
Homoeopathic Hospital 1
Great Northern Central Hospital 1
North London Consumption Hospital 1
New (Marylebone Road) Hospital
for women 1
St. Elizabeth's (Gt. Ormond Street)
Hospital 1
Mildmay Road Hospital 1
St. Gabriel's „ 1
St. Elizabeth's Home 1
Hoxton House Asylum 1
Surrey County „ 1
Middlesex (Wandsworth) Asylum 1
Paddington Workhouse Infirmary 2
Chelsea ,, ,, 1
Paddington Workhouse 2
Camberwell „ 1
St. Marylebone „ 1
St. Pancras „ 1
231
The deaths of three male parishioners in addition to the
above were recorded as follows:— One of a person who died
in a public house in Paddington; one run over and killed in
Carlos Street, Grosvenor Square; and one, a publican, who died
in the Serpentine. He had entered the water to commit suicide,
but death appears to have been actually due to rupture of
heart. The deaths at Queen Charlotte's Hospital were of
children born at that institution.
Deaths from zymotic diseases occurred as follows
Western District (Asylums Board) Hospital 54 (diphtheria 34,
scarlet, fever 19, enteric fever 1); North-western District
Hospital 1 (scarlet fever); St. Mary's Hospital 1 (diphtheria);
St George's Hospital 4 (diphtheria); Middlesex Hospital 1
(enteric fever); Children's Hospital, Paddington, 7 (diphtheria
5; enteric fever 1 and diarrhoea 1), and Children's Hospital,
Great Ormond Street 1 (diphtheria)—total, 69.
St. Joseph's House, Portobello Road.—The deaths at this
quasi-public institution are included in Table III. (Appendix).
They were 36 in number : males 13 and females 23. All of the
deaths save one occurred at ages over sixty; 22 of them at ages