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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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The deaths occurred in the following institutions, viz
| St, Mary's Hospital | 67 | Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square | 1 |
| St. George's Hospital | 38 | Hospital for Women, Euston Road | 1 |
| West London Hospital | 10 | City of London Chest Hospital | 1; |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 4 | French Hospital, Soho | 1 |
| Middlesex Hospital | 3 | London Temperance Hospital | 1 |
| King's College Hospital | 3 | Lying-in Home of St. John the Divine | 1 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 2 | ||
| University College Hospital | 3 | St. Peter's Home, Kilburn | 1 |
| Guy's Hospital | 1 | Bethlem Hospital...... | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 1 | Chelsea Infirmary | 2 |
| Brompton Consumption Hospital (South Wing) | 7 | Paddington Infirmary | 4 |
| Banstead Asylum | U | ||
| Western District Hospital | 28 | Leavesden Asylum | ti |
| North Western District Hospital | 2 | I Ian well Asylum | 4 |
| Canccr Hospital, Fulham Road | 5 | 1 Colney Hatch Asylum | |
| Queen Charlotte's Hospital | 1 | j Caterhnm Asylum | 2 |
| Children's Hospital (Paddington) | Darenth Asylum .. | 2 | |
| Ditto (Great Ormonde Street) | 3 | Camberwell Mouse Asylum | 2 |
| Children's (Victoria) Hospital | 7 | ' lioxton House Asylum | 1 |
| Children's (Shadwell) Hospital | I | Aged Pilgrims' Asylum | 1 |
| Cheyne Hospital for Children | 1 | j London County Lunatic Asylum, Norwood | 1 |
| North London Consumption Hospital | 1 | ||
| Chelsea Hospital for Women | 3 | Her Majesty's Prison, Wormwood : Scrubbs...... | 1 |
| Lock Hospital | 2 | ||
| Royal Free Hospital | o | 247 | |
| St. Elizabeth's Hospital | 1 | ||
| General Lying-in Hospital | 1 |
The deaths of three parishioners in addition to the above
were recorded as follows:—a male and a female, in a cab on
the way to St. George's Hospital, from burns and suffocation,
and a male, found dead in the Grand Junction Canal. Paddington.
The death at Queen Charlotte's Hospital was of a
child born in that institution.
Deaths from zymotic diseases occurred as follows:—
Western District (Asylums Board) Hospital, 26 (scarlet fever,
13; diphtheria, 7; and enteric fever, 6); North- Western District
Hospital, 2 (diphtheria); St. Man's Hospital. 5 (enteric
fever, 3; diarrhcea, 1; diphtheria, 1); St. George's Hospital,
3 (diphtheria, 1; enteric fever, 1; diarrhcea, 1); Victoria