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Hospital lor Children, 3 (enteric fever, 1 ; measles, 1; diarrhcea
1); Children's Hospital, Paddington, 2 (diphtheria); West
London Hospital, 1 (diphtheria); and University College
Hospital, 1 (diphtheria).
St. Joseph's House, Portobello Road.— The deaths at
this quasi-public institution, with two or three exceptions, of
parishioners, are not included in Table III. (Appendix).
They were 27 in number: males, 10; females, 17. Many of
the deceased had previously resided in Ireland, a few in
London, and the remainder in the provinces.
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 Wing" having been established on the farther side
of the Fulham Road, in the parish of Chelsea), were 140,
viz., males 77, and females 63. Six of the deaths were of
parishioners, and are included in Table III. (Appendix) : the
remaining deaths, of non-parishioners, are excluded from
that Table.
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, 613 deaths of nonparishioners
were registered, all of which are excluded from
Table III. (Appendix).
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Eight deaths, of 3 males and 5 females (against 12, 4
and 5 in the three preceding years respectively), were
returned as not having been certified, either by a registered
medical practitioner or by a Coroner. None of them occurred
in the practice of unregistered male practitioners. The
several cases were duly reported to the Coroner, who did