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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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Table: TABLE VIII. (Table III. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.) Deaths registered from all causes in the Year 1903. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Borough, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions, &c., without the Borough). For a Summary of this Table see page 17.

TABLE VIII. (Table III. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.) Deaths registered from all causes in the Year 1903. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Borough, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions, &c., without the Borough). For a Summary of this Table see page 17.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total all Ages.Sub-district.
0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 to 75.75 to 85.85 and upwards.Kensington Town.Brompton
GENERAL DISEASES264165424656921081009176264291066896170
LOCAL DISEASES17284302952108148178233158482561280968262
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE289457101413775321048222
DEATHS FROM ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES51.........1...12.........5155523
51025876801162052712933312417476824551998457
GENERAL DISEASES.
Small-poxVaccinated.............................................
Not Vaccinated.............................................
Doubtful.............................................
Cow-pox, Effects of Vaccination.............................................
Chicken-pox21...........................333...
Measles (Morbilli)6271........................333434...
Epidemic Rose Rash, German Measles.............................................
Scarlet Fever194........................1014113
Typhus.............................................
Plague.............................................
Relapsing Fever.............................................
Influenza22...334673...34413110
Whooping-Cough41481........................8990837
Mumps...1.................................
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup1174...1...............11824195
Cerebro-Spinal Fever....................................11...
simple continued fever "pyrexia".............................................
Enteric Fever......132111............99...
Asiatic Cholera.............................................
Epidemic Diarrhoea, Epid. (or Zym.) Enteritis518...........................5959563
Diarrhoea, Choleraic Diarrhoea246...1...1...12213038344
Dysentery.............................................
Malarial Fever.............................................
Hydrophobia.............................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Tetanus.............................................
Syphilis121...........................181313...
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of Urethra.....................1............11...
Puerperal Septicaemia, Sapræmia............1.....................11...
Puerperal Pyæmia.............................................
Puerperal Phlegmasia Dolens.............................................
Puerperal Fever...............1..................11...
Infective Endocarditis............1.....................11...
Epidemic Pneumonia, Pneumonic Fever.............................................
Erysipelas2l...1...1......1......3651
Septicaemia (not Puerperal)121.........221...3972
Pyaemia (not Puerperal)11110
Phlegmon, Carbuncle (not Anthrax)1121155
Phagedena...
Other Septic Diseases1111
117272737411681216114417
Tuberculous Phthisis (Pulm. luberculosis) " Phthisis"1248151245151483
Tuberculous Meningitis81562128 431 1027 74 3
Tuberculous Peritonitis228111
Carried forward1571428142486164881812529960854662
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