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The Births were, of Males 1,752 The Deaths were, of Males 1,172
,, Females 1,676 „ Females 1,825
Total Births 3,428 Total Deaths 2,497
Deduct 2,497 Deaths
Shows 931 excess of Births over Deaths.
During the ten years April 1st, 1891, to March 31st, 1901, the inter-censal period, 31,794
deaths were registered in the borough.
Table A, Appendix II. (page 140) gives the number of deaths, and the death-rate, for each of
the fifty-one years 1856-1906. For further details, see also Tables 6 and 7, Appendix I., pages
120-121.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The infantile mortality, or the proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered
births, is an important factor in vital statistics. The deaths under one year, which in the three
preceding years had been 510, 503, and 498, respectively, were 452 in 1906; being equivalent to 132
per 1,000 births, and 26 below the decennial average.
The deaths under one year in the Town sub-district (414) were equivalent to 142 per 1,000
births, those in Brompton (38) to 74 per 1,000.
The infantile deaths in North Kensington, after distribution of the deaths at the Borough
Infirmary, were 365, or 155 per 1,000 births ; those in South Kensington 87, or 87 per 1,000 births

The lowest rates in the Metropolitan Boroughs were: Hampstead 77, City of London 101,
Stoke Newington 102, and Paddington 105 ; the highest rates : Bethnal Green 155, Finsbury 160
and Shoreditch 163. The rate in eleven boroughs was higher, and in seventeen boroughs lower,
than in Kensington.
• There were 13 deaths in the ward, but three of them occurred at the Borough Infirmary, the previous residence of the
mothers not being known, and presumably not having been in this ward.