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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 Kensington notifications were 738; viz., 610 in the Town sub-district, and 128 in
Brompton. The notifications the ten preceding years were 1,811, 972, 1,289, 1,781, 1,457, 1,004,
1,046, 986, 1,025, and 1,608, respectively. The notifications in 1902 included 669 of chicken-pox, a
disease only temporarily made notifiable. Omitting these cases the notifications were 939, the
lowest number on record excepting in 1890 (787). The cases notified in 1903 were absolutely
the smallest number on record since notification was made compulsory in 1889.
Table XII. (Appendix I., p. 104) shows the streets, etc., where cases of the scheduled diseases
occurred.
The cases notified in London were 27,686, the lowest total in any year since 1891 (26,522).
The notifications of scarlet fever (12,536) were the fewest on record save in 1891 (11,398);
those of diphtheria (7,571) the lowest save in 1890 (5,870) and 1891 (5,907); those of enteric fever
(2,337), and of erysipelas (4,376), and of croup (156) being the lowest on record. The notifications
of puerperal fever (231) were the lowest yet recorded save in the two years 1890 (206) and 1891(221).

Table: Notification has been in force since October, 1889. The notifications of each of the diseases during the fourteen years 1890-1903 are set out in the subjoined table.

Notification has been in force since October, 1889. The notifications of each of the diseases during the fourteen years 1890-1903 are set out in the subjoined table.

Year.Small-pox.Chicken-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Croup.Cholera.Relapsing Fever.Total.
189060...15,3305,8702,877352372064,59855025729,795
1891114...11,3985,9073,372271522214,764505233926,522
1892423...27,0967,7912,465201473476,93456554745,849
18932,813...36,90113,0263,663222053979,70066886467,485
18941,192...18,44010,6553,360211622536,08053521240,721
1895978...19,75710,7723,506141052365,66045129341,511
1896225...25,63813,3613,18961022786,43844613349,699
1897105...22,87612,8113,1134652645,80138838145,466
189835...16,91711,5613,03217552505,18031023—37,380
189929...18,11213,3634,46014693295,61533815—42,344
190087...13,81211,7884,3097732374,7762105—35,304
19011,702...18,38711,9673,19320482504,6041873—40,361
19027,79426,70818,24610,5423,4054483135,5371921—71,790
1903417...12,5367,5712,33722402314,376156——27,686

Table: The Ages at Notification of certain of the diseases, in 1903, were as follows:-

The Ages at Notification of certain of the diseases, in 1903, were as follows:-

Age.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.
0-1 year7170176-140-
1-5294,1342,9901188-
5-384,7722,531268145-
10-171,851840346182-
15-366843563522557
20-4743527235126751
25-129374368522573122
35-628914826080952
45-3115351087951
55-1441532511-
65 and upwards6363507-
Age not stated--1---
41612,5317,7382,2434,372233