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District Zymotic Rate.—The deaths from these diseases in North Kensington were 226,
and the rate 2'44 per 1,000 persons living. In South Kensington the deaths were 52, and the rate
0*60 per 1,000. The rate in the several wards was as follows: -
North Kensington—
St. Charles 78 deaths,= 8.3
Golborne 61 deaths,= 28
Norland 71 deaths,= 8.0
Pembridge 23 deaths,=1.2
South Kensington—
Holland 20 deaths,=1.0
Earl's Court 11 deaths,= 0.6
Queen's Gate 8 deaths,= 0.2
Redcliffe 8 deaths,= 0.4
Brompton 8 deaths,= 0.6
per 1,000 persons living.
The table at page 16 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given, in Tables B, C and D, pages 141 and 142,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the fifty-one years, 1856-1906;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each disease and the death-rate therefrom; in
Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennial periods; in Table D, the rate per 1,000 of
the population, in quinquennial periods, of the four notifiable diseases (small-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and "fever"), and of the three non-notifiable diseases—measles, whooping-cough and
diarrhoea.
In England and Wales the deaths from these diseases were at the rate of T73 per 1,000
persons living, against T46, 1*94, and 1*52, respectively, in the preceding three years. In the
seventy-six great towns, including London, the average rate was 2"24.