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the immediate requirements of the hospital as soon as occasion shall JB s. d. ,serve provided that no building be commenced and placed on the land St. Mary the Virgin, ...... 33 0 0 recently acquired in unless the building is of such a Parish Church ...... 32 0 0 form a a new kind that it will definite and convenient part of hospital, St. George’s Presbyterian Church, ...... 32 0 0 or until a complete plan of this new hospital has been carefully Pa.rishChurch.ChigweIl ...... 31 0 0 ,considered. St. Anselm’s, ...... 31 0 0 That it is desirable at once to negotiate with the Duke of West- Congregational Church...... 30 0 0 minster for the purchase of the leaseholds on the terms proposed in Parish Church ...... , ., .. 30 0 0 the letters from His Grace’s solicitors of March 10th, 1899, and Keston Parish Church ...... 30 0 0 .Jan. 6th, 1904, at the price of job23.700. St. Anselm’s, Davies-street ...... 30 0 0 St. George’s Garrison Church, ...... 30 0 0 The with the a letter proceedings terminated reading of St. Mark’s, ...... 30 0 0 sum St. from Dr. Robert Barnes offering the of L1000 for the Stephen’s, Hampstead ...... , ", ,., ." 30 0 0 Church improvement of the medical school. He mentioned in the Leytonstone Congregational ...... 29 0 0 letter that in his the best fulfilled its St. George’s, Bloomshury ...... 29 0 0 opinion hospital St. Matthew’s, Svdenham ...... , ... 29 0 0 on purpose its present site. St. Margaret’s, ...... 28 0 0 Gordon-square Apostolic Church...... 28 0 0 High Beech Parish Church ...... 27 0 0 Ewell Parish Church ...... , ... 27 0 0 All Saints’, ...... ,..." ... 26 00 METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY St. Matthew’s, ...... ". ", ... 26 0 0 St. Peter’s, Eating ...... 26 00 FUND. St. Simon’s Chelsea ...... 25 0 0 BelgraveChapet.HaIkin street ...... 24 0 0 Park Chapel, Chelsea ...... " ...... 24 0 0 Parish Church ...... , ... THE following are some of the principal amounts, 23 0 0 Plumstead Parish Church ...... 23 0 0 -additional to those already announced in THE LANCET, Baptist Church and Mission ...... 23 0 0 All Saints’, ...... 22 0 0 received at the Mansion House up to Tuesday evening, when St. Andrew’s, Alexandra-park ...... 22 0 0 the sums paid in amounted to 26,000 :- St. Paul’s, Kilburn ...... 22 0 0 Woodford Parish Church and Mission ...... 22 0 2 s. d. 0 Christ Church, East ...... 21 0 0 St. Jude’s, South Kensington ...... 416 0 0 Ethical Religion Society ...... 21 0 0 ’St. Paul’s, Onslow-square ...... 378 0 0 St. Katherine’s Royal College Hospital .., ...... 21 0 0 All Saints, ...... 367 0 0 Ennismore- gardens St. Paul’s, Upper Holloway ...... 21 0 0 St. Paul’s, Portman-square ...... 360 0 0 St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church, Upper ...... 21 0 0 St. James’s, Piccadilly ...... 284 0 0 West Hackney Parish Church ...... 21 00 St. Hanover-square ...... 278 0 0 George’s, Chelsea Apostolic Church...... 20 0 0 ’Church of the Annunciation, St...... 229 0 0 Duke of York’s School ...... 20 0 0 ’St. Mark’s, Hamilton-terrace ...... 225 0 0 St. Snow-hill ...... 20 0 0 Union Chapel, ...... 201 0 0 Sepulchre’s, Woolwich Tabernacle ...... 20 0 0 ’St. Stephen’s, South ...... 181 0 0 St. Matthew’s, Bayswater ...... 168 0 0 Holy Trinity, Sydenham ...... ]60 0 0 ’Westminster Abbey ...... 154 0 0 Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon ...... 142 0 0 St. Peter’s, Bro(kley ...... 140 0 0 VITAL STATISTICS. - Christ Church, ...... 134 0 0 St. Mary’s, Kilburn ...... 129 0 0 St. Andrew’s, Well-street ...... 125 0 0 HEALTH OF ENGLISH TOWNS. -Temple Church ...... 121 0 0 Holy Trinity, ...." ...... 117 0 0 IN 76 of the largest English towns 8595 births and Holy Trinity, ...... ’" ’" 113 0 0 4029 deaths were the week All registered during ending Souls’, Hampstead ...... 110 0 0 June l8Gh. The annual rate of in these Great Parish Church ...... 106 mortality towns, 0 0 which had been and 2 in the St. Thomas’s, Portland-square ...... 97 0 0 15’ 4, 14’ 6, 14 per 1000 St. Andrew’s, Leytonstone...... 91 0 0 three preceding weeks, further declined last week to 13’ 8 Greek Church, Bayswater ...... 89 0 0 per 1000 In the death-rate was 12 8 per 1000, Holy Trinity, ...... 89 0 0 Tufnell Park while it 14- 1000 in the 75 other St. George’s, ...... 88 0 0 averaged 2 per large St. Stephen’s, ...... 88 0 0 towns. The lowest death-rates in these towns were 1’ 7 in St. Saviour’s Chelsea Church, ...... 82 0 0 Handsworth (Staffs ), 4 5 in Ipswich, 6’5 in Southampton, .Rosslyn Hill Chapel ...... 77 0 Stoke Parish 0 6 6 in , 6’ 8 in Bootle, 6’ 9 in , 7 0 in King’s Newington Church ...... 76 0 0 St. Mary’s, Boitons ...... 73 0 Norton, and 7’5 in and in Waltbamstow; while St. 0 Mark’s, lieigate ...... 72 0 0 the rates were 17’ 9 in 18 1 in Preston, St. Michael’s, highest Hanley, Highgate ...... 72 0 0 18’ 6 in Leed, 18 7 in 20’ 0 in Manchester, St. Andrew’s, Westminster ...... 68 0 Liverpool, St. 0 20 6 in St. 22.66 in and 23 7 Luke’s, Hackney ...... 68 0 0 Helens, Tynemouth, Kensington Congregational Church ...... 66 0 in The 4029 deaths in these towns last Church 0 Stockport. , Kent, Congregational ...... 61 0 week included 437 which were referred to the Parish Church and All Saints’ ...... 0 principal 61 0 0 , infectious and 492 in the Christ Church, ...... 60 0 diseases, against 519, 495, St. 0 three of Mary’s, ...... " 60 0 preceding weeks; these 437 deaths 186 resulted Parish Church and St. 0 Wey bridge Michael’s ...... , 59 0 from measles, 101 from 69 from Christ Church, 0 whooping-cough, diarrhoea, St. Lee...... 58 0 0 35 from scarlet fever, 29 from 16 from "fever" Johu’s, ...... 57 0 diphtheria, /! ano one from In Brompton Oratory ...... 56 0 (principally enteric), small-pox Hornsey, Christ Church, Newgate-street ...... 0 Christ 55 0 0 rottenham, Reading, Northampton, Devonport, Newport Church, Brondesbury and in ten no Church of the Immaculate .,..Farm-street ,., , ." 55 0 0 (Mon.), Merthyr Tydfil, other sma.ler towns Conception, ..." 54 Church of the Ascension, Blackheath ...... 0 0 death from any ot the principal infectious diseabes was Dutch Church, Austin Friars co 0 0 ...... ’ registered ; among the other towns the highest death-rates All Saints’, 52 0 0 Margaret-street ...... 51 0 0 from thtse diseai-es were recorded in Aston Manor, Derby, Holy Trinity, Upper Tooting ...... " St. Paul’s, 50 0 0 S,. Helens, Warrington, Oldham, Burnley, Blackburn, and St. Paul’s. Wimbledon...... Park 50 0 0 Rotherham. The mortality from measles ...... ;" greatest proportional St. Wandsworth-common 50 0 0 Mary Magdalen, ...... " occurred in Hammersmith 50 0 0 , Norwich, Hanley, King’s Norcon, St. Matthew’s, ...... " St. Stephen’s, Wandsworth 48 0 0 Derby, Birkenhead, St. Helens, Burnley, and Hall ; from ...... 48 0 0 from All Souls’. Notting-hill ...... ;; 47 0 0 scarlet fever in Wdrrington and York; diphtheria Highgate Presbyterian Church ...... ’ 47 0 0 in Rotherham ; from whooping-cough in , Aston St. Paul’s, Great Portland-street...... , and and from diarrhoea St. Streatham 44 0 0 Manur, Warrington, Blackburn; Peter’s, ’ All Saints’, Blackheath ’" ...... ’" 44 0 0 in Aston Manor. The mortality from "fever" showed ...... 43 0 0 St...... no marked excess in ot the towns. One fatal Matthew’s, Ealing ’"" 43 any large St. Paul’s, Forest-hill ...... case of was in but none in Gray’s Inn 42 0 0 small-pox registerea Stockport St. Alban’s, Chapel ...... 40 0 0 auy other 01 thr 76 towns. The number ot small-pox cases ...... 40 0 0 St. Luke’s. Hornsey ...... q0 0 " remainin g under treatment in the Metropolitan Asylums St. German’s, Btackheath ...... hu&pit.aih. which had been 118, 96, and 95 on the three St. Andrew’s, Whitehall Park 38 0 0 ...... ’ 36 0 0 preceding Saturdays, had tm ther declined tu 80 on Saturday Carmelite Church ...... Christ 35 0 0 laat, June l8th ; seven new cases were admitteu Church, Woburn-square ...... 35 0 0 during St. Stephen the Martyr, Avenue-road ...... the week, against 33, 10, and 21 in the three preceding H. Parish Church 35 n n rusey ...... 34 weeks. The number of scarlet fever in these Ferme Park 0 0 patients Baptist Chapel ...... 33 0 0 hospitals and in the London Fever Hospital at the end