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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1903
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1903
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The following table gives particulars with respect to diphtheria in North and South Kensington
respectively.
| Set out in Report for Four weeks ended. | Total Cases Recorded. | Cases Recorded in North Kensington.* | Cases Recorded in South Kensington.* | Cases removed to Hospital from. | Deaths (17 in Hospitals). | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Kensington. | South Kensington. | North Kensington. | South Kensington. | ||||
| January 31 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ... | ... |
| February 28 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ... |
| March 28 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | ... |
| April 25 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| May 23 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | ... |
| June 20 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 3 | ... |
| July 18 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| August 15 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | ... |
| September 12 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| October 10 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | ... | 1 |
| November 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ... |
| December 5 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | ... | ... |
| January 2, 1904 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 162 | 108 | 54 | 97 | 39 | 18 | 6 | |
* 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
WHOOPING-COUGH.
Whooping — Cough was the cause of 90 deaths compared with 33, 62, and 21, in the three
preceding years; 83 in the Town sub-district, and 7 in Brompton; the corrected decennial
average being 53. It was the only disease of the zymotic class the mortality from which exceeded
the corrected decennial average. All but one of the deaths were of children under five years of
age, including 41 under one year. The rate of mortality was 0·51 per 1,000 of the population.
The deaths in London, as a whole, were 1,631, and 443 below the corrected decennial
average (2,074). The rate of mortality was 0·35 per 1,000 of the population.
FEVER.
The notified cases of Enteric Fever were eighty in number, compared with 104, 97, and 80,
in the three preceding years. The deaths were 9 (nine below the corrected decennial average and
the smallest annual number on record); all of them belong to the Town sub-district. Five of the
deaths took place in hospitals, to which 28 cases were removed. The deaths from this cause in the
three preceding years were 16, 11, and 19, respectively. In a few of the cases there was ground for
suspicion that the illness had been caused by the eating of shell-fish— oysters in seven of the cases.
The deaths in London, as a whole, were 387, and 276 below the corrected decennial average
(663). The notifications were 2,237 (3,412 in 1902): the admissions to hospitals 967 (compared with
2,074, 1,480, and 1,806, in the three preceding years); and at the close of the year there remained
246 cases under treatment, against 403, 195, and 210, at the corresponding period of the three
preceding years. The rate of mortality was 0·08 per 1,000 of the population.
No case of Typhus Fever was notified in the Borough; and 22 cases only in London, as a
whole, there being three deaths from this cause.
No death occurred in the Borough from simple continued fever (Pyrexia); one case was.
notified. The deaths and notifications in London, as a whole, were 6 and 40 respectively.