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Table A, Appendix II. (page 140) gives the number of deaths under one year in Kensington,
and the proportion to 1,000 registered births for each of the thirty-six years, 1871-1906, during
my tenure of office. The figures for the 11 years, 1896-1906, have been corrected by the addition
of the births to Kensington mothers at Queen Charlotte's Hospital to those occurring, and
registered, in the borough.
The deaths of children over one year and under five years of age were 241; the deaths under
five years, therefore, were 693, compared with 768, 756, and 757, in the preceding three years, being
equal to 278 per 1,000 deaths and 202 per 1,000 births; the relative proportions in London, as a
whole, being 352 and 201. The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age, 79, 63, and
94, in the preceding three years respectively, were 79 in 1906, of which 74 were registered in the
Town sub-district, and 5 in Brompton. These deaths were equal to 50 per cent, on the 158
births registered as illegitimate. Of the 79 children 10 only survived the first year of life.
Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards, there were 934 deaths, as compared
with 803, 883, and 873, in the preceding three years respectively. These deaths were equivalent to
374 per 1,000 deaths at all ages. The relative proportion in all London was 292 per 1,000.
District Rates of Mortality.—The table at page 14 shows (inter alia) the death-rate
in the sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the wards, for the year, and also for each of the
thirteen four-weekly periods covered by the monthly reports. As usual the rate was far higher in
the Town sub-district (15.2 per 1,000) than in the Brompton sub-district (10.4), and the same
observation applies to the parliamentary division of North Kensington (16.9), compared with the
southern division of the borough (10.7). In all of the wards in North Kensington, the death-rate
exceeded that of the borough as a whole (13.9 per 1,000), whereas in each of the wards in South
Kensington it was more or less largely below the rate for the borough as a whole. In the
Notting-dale " special area " (estimated population 4,000) comprised in Norland Ward, the deathrate
was 30.2 per 1,000 and the lowest on record, compared with 19.3 in the ward, as a whole;
the zymotic death rate 5.7 per 1,000, and more than three times that of the borough, as a whole
(1.55). The deaths at all ages were 17 more than the births; the deaths of children under
one year of age being in the proportion of 308 per 1,000 registered births. The main facts with
respect to vital and mortal statistics of this distressful area, which generally were of a more
favourable character than in any one of the preceding ten years, are summarised below.

Causes of Death.—In 12 cases Diarrhcza ; in 9 cases Measles; and in 1 case each Scarlet Fever
and Whooping Cough. Among other principal causes were—diseases of the nervous system, 5
* Fourteen of the 104 births (9 of them illegitimate) occurred at the borough infirmary maternity ward ;
† Eleven of the 32 deaths took place at the borough infirmary, including 7 of infants born there and who had never left
the institution. The principal causes of death were, epidemic diarrhoea 8, enteritis 2, measles 4, whooping-cough 1„
tuberculosis and marasmus 6, and diseases of the lungs 7.