Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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. | |||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||
1856 | 57,078 | 13 | 35 | Not separ- | 15 | ately classified. | 27 | Not separately classified. | 26 | Not separately classified. | 62 | 178 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 144 | |
1857 | 59,683 | 1 | 20 | 28 | 50 | 32 | 79 | 210 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 176 | |||||
1858 | 62,288 | 2 | 26 | 61 | 63 | 38 | 30 | 220 | 3.5 | 5.1 | 171 | |||||
1859 | 64,893 | 10 | 42 | 76 | 10 | 23 | 71 | 232 | 3.6 | 5.1 | 173 | |||||
1860 | 67,498 | 18 | 30 | 89 | 7 | 56 | 23 | 36 | 259 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 175 | ||||
1861 | 70,108 | 2 | 57 | 51 | 14 | 37 | 32 | 65 | 258 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 178 | ||||
1862 | 76,350 | ... | 30 | 110 | 28 | 54 | 51 | 24 | 297 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 185 | ||||
1863 | 81,350 | 49 | 83 | 89 | 22 | 22 | 54 | 54 | 373 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 229 | ||||
1864 | 86,350 | 5 | 100 | 90 | 16 | 56 | 60 | 63 | 390 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 211 | ||||
1865 | 91,350 | 20 | 55 | 31 | 18 | 37 | 78 | 103 | 342 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 197 | ||||
1866 | 96,350 | 11 | 49 | 21 | 13 | 58 | 44 | 106 | 302 | 3.1 | 6.7 | 154 | ||||
1867 | 101,350 | 25 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 76 | 53 | 89 | 300 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 155 | ||||
1868 | 106,350 | 4 | 84 | 169 | 33 | 34 | 52 | 113 | 489 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 219 | ||||
1869 | 111,350 | 7 | 33 | 104 | 11 | 79 | 51 | 112 | 397 | 3.6 | 5.6 | 177 | ||||
1870 | 116,350 | 8 | 70 | 198 | 14 | 55 | 5 | 24 | 17 | 154 | 545 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 220 | ||
1871 | 120,234 | 120 | 64 | 95 | 11 | 72 | 6 | 26 | 16 | 129 | 539 | 4.5 | 6.0 | 223 | ||
1872 | 127,606 | 68 | 43 | 29 | 14 | 77 | 4 | 28 | 10 | 110 | 383 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 169 | ||
1878 | 132,826 | 1 | 38 | 10 | 11 | 44 | 6 | 27 | 8 | 145 | 290 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 119 | ||
1874 | 138,616 | ... | 121 | 32 | 26 | 45 | 9 | 28 | 15 | 112 | 388 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 144 | ||
1875 | 144,488 | ... | 23 | 83 | 23 | 107 | 2 | 21 | 6 | 107 | 372 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 133 | ||
1876 | 148,338 | 8 | 128 | 59 | 17 | 124 | 3 | 27 | 6 | 126 | 498 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 172 | ||
1877 | 151,360 | 84 | 54 | 31 | 10 | 34 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 99 | 333 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 127 | ||
1878 | 154,305 | 24 | 53 | 77 | 20 | 185 | 3 | 26 | 4 | 181 | 573 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 184 | ||
1879 | 158,316 | 24 | 60 | 51 | 26 | 93 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 71 | 348 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 116 | ||
1880 | 161,462 | 11 | 75 | 105 | 22 | 95 | 4 | 24 | 5 | 128 | 469 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 163 | ||
1881 | 163,151 | 55 | 67 | 38 | 8 | 85 | 2 | 22 | 5 | 101 | 383 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 140 | ||
1882 | 163,540 | ... | 77 | 62 | 25 | 119 | 1 | 25 | 6 | 61 | 376 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 139 | ||
1883 | 163,860 | 1 | 39 | 28 | 24 | 44 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 80 | 251 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 96 | ||
1884 | 164,180 | 26 | 32 | 18 | 17 | 81 | ... | 26 | 4 | 110 | 314 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 119 | ||
1885 | 164,500 | 25 | 111 | 7 | 22 | 98 | ... | 12 | ... | 86 | 361 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 130 | ||
1886 | 164,820 | ... | 56 | 11 | 34 | 82 | ... | 11 | ... | 90 | 284 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 102 | ||
1887 | 165,140 | ... | 108 | 44 | 40 | 86 | ... | 11 | 2 | 124 | 416 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 145 | ||
1888 | 165,450 | ... | 124 | 26 | 89 | 100 | ... | 21 | 2 | 58 | 420 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 148 | ||
1889 | 165,760 | ... | 14 | 28 | 111 | 26 | ... | 19 | ... | 71 | 269 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 111 | ||
1890 | 166,080 | ... | 140 | 26 | 35 | 93 | ... | 15 | ... | 78 | 387 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 131 | ||
1891 | 166,308 | ... | 29 | 16 | 28 | 84 | ... | 24 | 1 | 91 | 273 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 89 | ||
1892 | 167,200 | ... | 109 | 36 | 31 | 63 | ... | 15 | 2 | 77 | 333 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 115 | ||
1893 | 167,900 | 9 | 18 | 51 | 83 | 65 | ... | 17 | ... | 98 | 341 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 117 | ||
1894 | 168,600 | ... | 108 | 22 | 75 | 61 | ... | 21 | 3 | 56 | 346 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 132 | ||
1895 | 169,300 | ... | 33 | 27 | 89 | 39 | ... | 15 | 1 | 118 | 322 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 117 | ||
1896 | 170,465 | ... | 173 | 39 | 72 | 99 | ... | 15 | 1 | 61 | 460 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 159 | ||
1897 | 170,700 | ... | 33 | 29 | 82 | 19 | ... | 21 | 1 | 125 | 310 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 116 | ||
1898 | 172,000 | ... | 120 | 23 | 26 | 52 | 2 | 12 | ... | 112 | 347 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 124 | ||
1899 | 172,400 | ... | 24 | 10 | 42 | 59 | ... | 23 | ... | 101 | 259 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 86 | ||
1900 | 173,000 | ... | 98 | 4 | 27 | 33 | ... | 16 | ... | 105 | 283 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 105 | ||
1901 | 176,628 | 1 | 77 | 15 | 38 | 62 | 1 | 11 | ... | 115 | 820 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 121 | ||
1902 | 177,500 | 11 | 93 | 21 | 20 | 21 | ... | 19 | ... | 78 | 263 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 96 | ||
1903 | 178,000 | ... | 34 | 14 | 24 | 90 | ... | 9 | 97 | 268 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 109 | |||
1904 | 178,500 | 1 | 67 | 5 | 17 | 19 | ...| | 6 | 1 | 128 | 244 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 96 | ||
1905 | 179,000 | ... | 54 | 21 | 9 | 60 | ... | 13 | ... | 90 | 247 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 99 |
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.