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preceding years), being 20 below the corrected decennial average (58): 35 of them belong to the
Town sub-district and 3 to Brompton; 27 to North Kensington, and 11 to South Kensington.
Twenty-seven of the deaths were of children under five years of age, including 3 under one year.
Twenty-eight of the deaths took place at hospitals, to which 198 cases were removed, a casemortality
of 15.2 per cent.
Detailed information in regard to diphtheria mortality in the borough, 1871-1901, is set
out in Appendix II., Tables B, C, and D, pp. 123-124.
The deaths in London, as a whole, (including deaths from membranous croup) were 1,344
and approximately 898 below the corrected decennial average, as compared with 1,772, 1,964,
and 1,558, in the three preceding years. The notifications of diphtheria were 12,154, compared
with 11,561, 13,701, and 11,998, in the three preceding years successively. The cases of diphtheria
admitted to hospitals are stated by the Registrar-General to have been 7,719, and the deaths in
hospitals 860, a case-mortality of 11.01 per cent.
The following table, based on the thirteen four-weekly reports, sets out some particulars with
regard to diphtheria, in Kensington and in London :—

Note.—Correction has not been made in the above table for errors in diagnosis, either with respect to notifications or
admissions to hospital. Cases of membranous croup are included.
The following table gives particulars with respect to diphtheria in North and South
Kensington respectively.

* North Kensington and South Kensington are the districts to the north and the south of the centre of Notting-hill,
High-street, and Holland-park-avenue, respectively.