London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

94
95

Table: TABLE Will.—continued.

TABLE Will.—continued.

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.
Brought forward1571428142436164331812529960854662
GENERAL DISEASES.—continued.
Tabes Mesenterial.............................................
Lupus........................1.........11...
Tubercle of other Organs...111111............166...
General Tuberculosis10821121......1826241
Scrofula.............................................
Parasitic Diseases.............................................
Starvation.............................................
Scurvy...........................
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens............36"25............1688
Opium, Morphia Habit....................................
Ptomaine Poisoning.........1........................11...
Industrial Poisoningby Lead....................................
by Phosphorus..........................................
by Arsenic and other Metals....................................
Rheumatic Fever, Acute Rheumatism......511221............1212...
Rheumatism of Heart....................................
Chronic Rheumatism..................1......11...
Rheumatic Arthritis, Rheumatic Gout.....................12...1...431
Gout...............11...1......312
Carcinoma.........11015252311...856223
Sarcoma1212...11331111
Malignant Disease, Cancer...18162227152916328
Rickets...6.....................6651
Purpura............1.....................11...
Haemophilia, Haemorrhagic Diathesis..........................................
Anaemia, Leucocythaemia...123......651
Diabetes Mellitus......111245102......261412
Premature Birth61...61615110
Congenital Defects1111........................1213121
Injury at Birth2........................2211
Atelectasis7..............................7743
Want of Breast Milk6..............................6642
Teething95.........181414131
Old Age.....................1635......604713
204165424656921081009176264291066896170
LOCAL DISEASES.
Diseasks of Nervous System.
Meningitis, Inflammation of Brain453...............1......91394
Softening of Brain...............111241...1064
General Paralysis of Insane......1...210541.........23203
Insanity (not Puerperal)1......2..................111
Chorea1..................761
Epilepsy4212020201
Convulsions191...........................3321
Laryngismus Stridulus3.....................1.........321
Locomotor Ataxy...............11...1.........70
Paraplegia and Disease of Cord............2331939
Neuritis, Periph, Poly-Neuritis............2111115 43A 1
Brain Tumour (not specific)............1...1...11...............
Nervous System, Other Diseases............123'4571...23203
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense.
Otitis, Mastoid Disease31111...2............4963
Epistaxis, Nose Disease....................................
Ophthalmia, Eye Disease....................................
Diseases of Heart.
Valve Disease, Endocarditis (not infective)421714712111...594118
Pericarditis...121...431
Hypertrophy of Heart1...11
Angina Pectoris441...981
Dilatation of Heart114 .71 O1...1511 74
Fatty Degeneration of Heart1313I...10...3
Syncope, Heart Disease (not specified)............16172430173...987325
Carried forward29710314336454714673632824979
Continued.