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Kensington 1905

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905

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TABLE B. Annual Number of Deaths in Kensington from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class (1856-1905); and Death-rate from these Diseases, in Kensington, and in London.

The Year.Population.Deaths from the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class.Zymotic Death-rate.
Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping-Cough.Fever.Diarrhoœa.Total.Per 1,000 persons living.Deaths per 1,000 Deaths from all Causes, Kensington.
Typhus.Enteric.Pyrexia.Kensington.London.
185657,0781335Not separ-15ately classified.27Not separately classified.26Not separately classified.621783.14.3144
185759,683120285032792103.54.3176
185862,288226616338302203.55.1171
185964,8931042761023712323.65.1173
186067,49818308975623362593.83.8175
186170,10825751143732652583.74.5178
186276,350...30110285451242973.95.1185
186381,350498389222254543734.65.9229
186486,350510090165660633904.55.6211
186591,3502055311837781033423.74.9197
186696,3501149211358441063023.16.7154
1867101,35025222697653893003.03.9155
1868106,3504841693334521134894.64.8219
1869111,3507331041179511123973.65.6177
1870116,3508701981455524171545454.75.2220
1871120,23412064951172626161295394.56.0223
1872127,6066843291477428101103833.03.8169
1878132,82613810114462781452902.23.3119
1874138,616...121322645928151123882.83.3144
1875144,488...23832310722161073722.63.9133
1876148,3388128591712432761264983.33.6172
1877151,36084543110342145993332.23.5127
1878154,3052453772018532641815733.74.1184
1879158,31624605126931148713482.23.3116
1880161,4621175105229542451284692.93.7163
1881163,15155673888522251013832.33.6140
1882163,540...7762251191256613762.33.5139
1883163,8601392824442303802511.52.796
1884164,1802632181781...2641103141.93.5119
1885164,5002511172298...12...863612.23.0130
1886164,820...56113482...11...902841.72.8102
1887165,140...108444086...1121244162.53.1145
1888165,450...1242689100...212584202.52.7148
1889165,760...142811126...19...712691.62.3111
1890166,080...140263593...15...783872.32.8131
1891166,308...29162884...241912731.62.389
1892167,200...109363163...152773332.02.8115
1893167,900918518365...17...983412.03.1117
1894168,600...108227561...213563462.12.7132
1895169,300...33278939...1511183221.92.6117
1896170,465...173397299...151614602.73.1159
1897170,700...33298219...2111253101.82.6116
1898172,000...120232652212...1123472.02.8124
1899172,400...24104259...23...1012591.52.586
1900173,000...9842733...16...1052831.62.2105
1901176,628177153862111...1158201.82.3121
1902177,5001193212021...19...782631.52.296
1903178,000...34142490...9972681.51.8109
1904178,50016751719...|611282441.42.296
1905179,000...5421960...13...902471.41.799

Note.—The Medical Officer of Health is indebted to Dr. Tatham, Superintendent of Statistics in the Department of the
Registrar-General, for many of the figures above the horizontal line between 1870 and 1871; and to Mr. Stephens, Clerk to the
Kensington Board of Guardians, for the Annual Number of marriages set out in Table A between 1856 and 1870 inclusive.