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District Zymotic Rate.— The deaths from these diseases in North Kensington were 224,
and the rate 2·44 per 1,000 persons living. In South Kensington the deaths were 44, and the rate
0·51 per 1,000. The rate in the several wards was as follows:—
North
Kensington
St. Charles 61 deaths, or 2·8 per 1,000 persons living.
Golborne 90 deaths, or 3·4 per 1,000 persons living.
Norland 50 deaths, or 2·1 per 1,000 persons living.
Pembridge 23 deaths, or l·2 per 1,000 persons living.
South
Kensington
Holland 16 deaths, or 0·8 per 1,000 persons living.
Earl's Court 14 deaths, or 0·8 per 1,000 persons living.
Queen's Gate 3 deaths, or 0·2 per 1,000 persons living.
Redcliffe 11 deaths, or 0·6 per 1,000 persons living.
Brompton No death.
The table at page 13 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases, as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given in Tables B, C and D, pages 110 and 111,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the forty-eight years, 1856-1903;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each disease and the death-rate therefrom; in
Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennial periods; in Table D, the rate per 1,000 of
the population, in quinquennial periods, of the four notifiable diseases (small-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and "fever"), and the three non-notifiable diseases—measles, whooping-cough and
diarrhœa.
In England and Wales the deaths from the principal zymotic diseases were at the rate of
1·46 per 1,000 persons living. In the seventy-six great towns, including London, the average rate
was 1·89.
In London, as a whole, the mortality from these diseases last year was 1·77 per 1,000 and
0·93 below the corrected decennial average; the total deaths were 8,166. The mortality from all of
these diseases shows a considerable decrease compared with the decennial average.