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Kensington 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Outlying Public Institutions, &c.—The deaths of parishioners
at public institutions, &c., outside the Parish were 211 in
number (against 213, 230, and 234 in 1887-8-9. In Table III.
(Appendix) all of these deaths are included. The deaths occurred
in the following institutions, viz.:—
St. Mary's Hospital 57
St. George's Hospital 36
West 1 ondon Hospital 5
Middlesex Hospital 4
St, Bartholomew's Hospital *1
Charing Cross Hospital 3
Westminster Hospital 3
St. Thomas's Hospital 2
University College Hospital 2
King's College Hospital 1
London Hospital 1
Guy's Hospital 1
Brompton Consumption Hospital
(south branch) 2
Western District Hospital 37
North-Western District Hospital 1
Cancer Hospital (Fulham Road) 1
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 7
Children's Hospital (Paddington) 7
Ditto (Great Ormond Street) 4
Children's (Victoria) Hospital 3
Children's Hospital (Belgrave),
Pimlico 1
North London Consumption Hospital 1
Homoeopathic Hospital 1
Royal Free Hospital 1
Hospital for Women, Chelsea 1
National Hospital for Paralysis 1
Samaritan Hospital 1
French Hospital (Soho) 2
Dr. Barnardo's Home 1
St. Gabriel's Home 1
St. Peter's (Kilburn) Home 1
St. Joseph's Orphanage 1
Bolingbroke House 1
St. Plagias Crêche (Islington) 1
Licensed Victuallers' Asylum
(Peckham) 1
Invalids' Asylum, Stoke
ington 1
St. George's Workhouse (Wallis
Yard) 3
Paddington Infirmary 2
St. Pancras Infirmary 1
204
The deaths of seven parishioners in addition to the above
were recorded as follows:— One, a male, killed on the Great
Western Railway at Paddington; a female, by drowning in the
Serpentine (suicide); a boy, run over in the street (on the way to
St. George's Hospital); a man, who died from syncope and congestion
of lungs, whilst being conveyed to St. George's Hospital;
a man who died in a house at Paddington; a man who died
in a cab in Bishop's Road, Paddington; and a child killed in the
street near St. Mary's Hospital. Six of 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, 35 (scarlet fever, 20;
diphtheria, 12; enteric fever, 2; and measles, 1); North-western
District Hospital, 1 (diphtheria); St. George's Hospital, 3
(diphtheria); St. Mary's Hospital, 2 (measles, 1, diarrhoea, 1);
Children's Hospital, Paddington, 1 (diphtheria); Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 1 (diphtheria); and Victoria
Hospital for Children, 1 (diarrhoea): total 44.