Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health 1906
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TABLE C.
Births, and Birth-rate; Deaths, and Death-rate; Deaths from the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; and Zymotic Death-rate, in Kensington, 1856-1905: Arranged in Quinquennial Periods.
Quinquennial Period. | Births. | Birthrate. | Deaths. | Death-rate. | Deaths from Zymotic Diseases. | Zymotic Death-rate, per 1,000 persons living. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | Measles. __ | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping-Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Pyrexia. | Diarrhoea. | Total. | ||||||
1856-1860 | 9,557 | 30.7 | 6,540 | 21.0 | 44 | 153 | 276 | — | 206 | Not separately classified. | 142 | Not separately classified. | 278 | 1,099 | 3.58 |
1861-1865 | 11,562 | 28.5 | 8,261 | 20.4 | 76 | 325 | 371 | 98 | 206 | 275 | 309 | 1,660 | 4.09 | ||
1866-1870 | 17,090 | 32.1 | 10,853 | 20.4 | 55 | 258 | 518 | 80 | 302 | 224 | 574 | 2,011 | 8.78 | ||
1871-1875 | 20,861 | 31.4 | 12,595 | 18.9 | 189 | 289 | 249 | 85 | 345 | 27 | 130 | 55 | 603 | 1,972 | 2.97 |
1876-1880 | 23,149 | 29.9 | 14 517 | 18.8 | 151 | 370 | 323 | 95 | 531 | 13 | 105 | 28 | 605 | 2,221 | 2.87 |
1881-1885 | 21,383 | 26.1 | 13,438 | 16.4 | 107 | 326 | 153 | 96 | 427 | 5 | 115 | 18 | 438 | 1,685 | 2.05 |
1886-1890 | 19,428 | 23.5 | 13,816 | 16.7 | 1 | 442 | 185 | 305 | 387 | ... | 77 | 4 | 421 | 1,772 | 2.14 |
1891-1895 | 18,512 | 22.1 | 14.235 | 16.9 | 9* | 297 | 152 | 306 | 312 | ... | 92 | 7 | 440 | 1,615 | 1.92 |
1896-1900 | 18,665 | 21.8 | 14,075 | 16.4 | ... | 448 | 105 | 249 | 262 | 2 | 87 | 2 | 504 | 1,659 | 1.98 |
1901-1905 | 18,131 | 20.4 | 12,898 | 14.4 | 13 | 325 | 76 | 108 | 252 | 1 | 58 | 1 | 508 | 1,842 | 1.51 |
Note.—The Medical Officer of Health is not responsible for the accuracy of the figures above the horizontal line between
1866-1870 and 1871-1875, excepting as to the calculation of rates.
*All in 1893.
TABLE D.
Death-rate in Kensington, per 1,000 persons living, from each of the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; Arranged also, in two groups; viz. (1) The four notifiable infectious diseases—Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and "Fever"; and (2) The three non-notifiable diseases—Measles, Whooping-Cough, and Diarrhoea.
Quinquennial Period. | l | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Death-rate per 1,000 from— | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | "Fever." | Diarrhœa. | The Seven Diseases. | The Four Notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 1, 3, 4, and 6.) | The three Non-notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 2, 5, and 7.) | |
1856-1860 | 0.14 | 0.49 | 0.89 | — | 0.66 | 0.46 | 0.89 | 8.58 | 1.48 | 2.05 |
1861-1865 | 0.19 | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.24 | 0.51 | 0.68 | 0.76 | 4.09 | 2.02 | 2.07 |
1866-1870 | 0.10 | 0.49 | 0.97 | 0.15 | 0.57 | 0.42 | 1.08 | 8.78 | 1.65 | 2.18 |
1871-1875 | 0.28 | 0.44 | 0.87 | 0.18 | 0.52 | 0.82 | 0.91 | 2.97 | 1.11 | 1.86 |
1876-1880 | 0.19 | 0.48 | 0.42 | 0.12 | 0.69 | 0.19 | 0.78 | 2.87 | 0.92 | 1.95 |
1881-1885 | 0.13 | 0.39 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.52 | 0.17 | 0.58 | 2.05 | 0.60 | 1.45 |
1886-1890 | 0.00 | 0.58 | 0.16 | 0.37 | 0.47 | 0.10 | 0.51 | 2.14 | 0.63 | 1.51 |
1891-1895 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 0.18 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.12 | 0.52 | 1.92 | 0.67 | 1.25 |
1896-1900 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.12 | 0.29 | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.59 | 1.98 | 0.52 | 1.41 |
1901-1905 | 0.01 | 0.87 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 0.07 | 0.57 | 1.51 | 0.29 | 1.22 |