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Kensington 1899

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1899

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Table: TABLE III.Deaths registered from all causes in the year 1899. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishionersat Public Institutions within the Parish, but inclusive of the Deaths of parishioners Institutions, etc., without the Parish.) For a Summary of this Table see page 62.

TABLE III.Deaths registered from all causes in the year 1899. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishionersat Public Institutions within the Parish, but inclusive of the Deaths of parishioners Institutions, etc., without the Parish.) For a Summary of this Table see page 62.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total All Ages.sub-district
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 and upwards.Kensington Town.Brompton.
CLASSES.
I SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES1469219131526121726251223840331390
II PARASITIC DISEASES24............1...........6767
III DIETETIC DISEASES.........121582........19172
IV CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES36411730758193815326377536426110
v developmental diseases78...2......1...21559397819616432
VI LOCAL DISEASES2481274731851312192502441914337516161317299
VII DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE301356791214772431129517
VIII. DEATHS FROM ILL-defined AND SPECIFIED CAUSES10213...11...65331...13211715
64229090821 852493483773503099993230212455566
I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Order 1.-Miasmatic diseases
Smallpox.............................................
Measles618..........................2424231
Scarlet Fever...531...1...............51073
Typhus.............................................
Whooping-cough2930...........................59594613
Diphtheria32612...1..................29422814
Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever.............................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......27643...1.........23203
Other Miasmatic Diseases—Influenza821341471420248101056639
2.—Diarrhceal Diseases.
Simple Cholera11.....................1...233...
Diarrhoea, Dysentery849.........3......2...3931019110
3.Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever...............1...................1...1
Ague............................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cow-Pox, and effects of Vaccination.............................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).............................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis —15.........1...1............1517143
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of the Urethra....................................11...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas...11.........113...11862
Pyaemia, Septicaemia............21...1............431
Puerperal Fever.........212..................55..
1469219131526121726251223840331390
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases23............1............5651
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases...1...........................111...
24............1............6761
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk—Starvation.............................................
Scurvy....................................17152
Chronic Alcoholism.........11..582........22...
Delirium Tremens......•...11.................
.........121582.........19172
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...221...212.........21091
Rheumatism....11........1...2......523
Gout.................222........651
Rickets21..................•••......3321
Cancer, Malignant Disease......13522294937203...16912049
Tabes Mesenterica104..........................1414122
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus102241....................3237325
Phthisis1111863555020111...222119328
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula1310662244........2347398
Purpura, Hæmorrhagic Diathesis...1...........................111...
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythsemia.....................11.........2...2
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus...........3...5223......1569
Other Constitutional Diseases......2...2...2...............651
3641173075815381532637 75 36110

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