[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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The subjoined table shows the annual-death rate per 1,000 persons living, in each of the last eleven years, in Kensington, in London as a whole, and in all England:—

	1888.	1887.	1886.	1885.	1884.	1883.	1882.	1881.	1880.	1879.	1878.

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Kensington is for some local purposes divided into Wards : the subjoined table shows the acreage of the wards, their population, and the number of inhabited houses, etc., in 1871 and 1881.

Name of Ward.	Area in Statue Acres.	Inhabited 1871.	houses. 1881.	Increase in 10 years.	Population.		Increase in 10 years.
Name of Ward.	Area in Statue Acres.	Inhabited 1871.	houses. 1881.	Increase in 10 years.	1871.	1881.	Increase in 10 years.

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The subjoined figures illustrate the development of the parish, in population and wealth, since the beginning of the century.

The Year.	Population.	Rateable value of Property.	The Year:

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The subjoined Table sets out necessary particulars of the mortality from the principal zymotic diseases in 1888, together with the decennial average, etc:—

Disease.	Sub.districts.		In Hospitals.		Total.	Decennial Average.
Disease.	Town.	Brompton.i	Town.	Brompton.	Total.	Uncorrected.	Corrected for increase of Population.

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The following Table shews the distribution of deaths in Kensington from the principal diseases of the zymotic class, registered in thirteen four-weekly periods, corresponding with ny monthly reports:—

Report for Four Weeks ended.	Small-pox.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping-cough.	Typhus Fever.	Enteric Fever.	Simple Continued Fever.	Diarrhoea.	Total.

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Statistics of Scaelet Fevee in Kensington in 1888 and in Nine 1 Peevious Yeaes.

]The Year.	No. of Recorded Cases.		Total Number of Recorded Gases.	Percentage of Removals to total Recorded Cases.	Deaths.		Total Deaths.	Percentage of Deaths.		Percentage of Deaths to Recorded Cases.	Deaths in London from Scarlet Fever.
]The Year.	Treated at Home.	Removed to Hospital.	Total Number of Recorded Gases.	Percentage of Removals to total Recorded Cases.	At Home.	In Hospitals	Total Deaths.	At Home.	In Hospitals	Percentage of Deaths to Recorded Cases.	Deaths in London from Scarlet Fever.

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Scarlet Fevee Cases Recorded in Kensington in 1888, and in Nine Peevious Years*, in Thirteen Four.Weekly Periods.

The Year.	Weeks. 1-4	Weeks. 5-8	Weeks. 9-12	Weeks. 13-16	Weeks. 17-20	Weeks. 21-24	Weeks. 25-28	Weeks. 29-32	Weeks. 33-36	Weeks. 37-40	Weeks. 41-44	Weeks. 45-48	Weeks. 49-52	TOTAL

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Table shewing Quarterly and Total Admissions of Small-Pox and Fever Patients at the Asylums Board Hospitals in 1888, and Population Of the several Parishes, Unions, and Districts in 1881.

Parishes, Unions, &e.		Small-Pox.				Total.	Scarlet Fever.				Total.	Enteric Fever.				Total.	Diphtheria	Grand Total Small-Pox, Fever, and Diphtheria.		Population in 1881.
Parishes, Unions, &e.		1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr,	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.	Total.	1st Qtr.	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr	Total.	1st Qtr	2nd Qtr.	3rd Qtr.	4th Qtr.	Total.	4th Qtr.	Grand Total Small-Pox, Fever, and Diphtheria.		Population in 1881.

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(a) ENTIRE PARISH.

All ages.		Under Five Tears.	5 to 15.	15 to 25.	25 to 35.	35 to 45.	45 to 55.	55 to 65.	65 to 75.	75 to 85.	85 to 95.	95 and upwards.	All Ages.

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(b) KENSINGTON TOWN SUB-DISTRICT.

All Ages.		Under Five Years.	5 to 15.	15 to 25.	25 to 35.	35 to 45.	45 to 55.	55 to 65.	65 to 75.	75 to 85.	85 to 95.	95 and upwards.	All Ages.

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(c) BROMPTON SUB-DISTRICT.

All Ages.		Under Five Years.	5 to 15.	15 to 25.	25 to 35.	35 to 45.	45 to 55.	55 to 65.	65 to 75.	75 to 85.	85 to 95.	95 and upwards.	All Ages.

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The subjoined Table shows the quarterly number of births of males and females in each of the sub-districts.

	Kensington Town Sub-district.			Brompton Sub-district			Grand Total Whole Parish.
	Males.	Females.	Total.	Males.	Females.	Total.

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The Death—Rate per 1,000 persons living, at different periods of life, was as follows:—

	1888.	1887.	1886.	1885.

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The subjoined Table shews the quarterly number of deaths of parishioners, males and females, in each of the sub-districts, including: those that occurred at outlvins' miblic institutions:—

	Kensington Town Sub-district.			Brompton Sub-district.			Grand Total. Whole
	Males.	Females.	Total.	Males.	Females.	Total	Parish.

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The subjoined Table shows the rate of mortality and the mean temperature of the air in each of thirteen periods of four weeks corresponding with my monthly reports.

Date of Report.	Death rate per 1,000 persons living.		Above or below Decennial Average	Mean Temperature, of the Air.
	Death rate per 1,000 persons living.			1888.	Decennial Average	Above or below Decennial Average.
	1888.	10 years 1878-87.		1888.	Decennial Average

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I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

	No. of Deaths.

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Summary of Causes of Death.

diseases.	Between 60 and
diseases.	Under 1 year.	1 year and 60.	up wards	Total.

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The fatal diseases may be classified as follows:—

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Comparative Small-pox Death Bates among Londoners, Vaccinated and Unvaccinated respectively, for the 52 weeks ended 29th May, 1881.

Death rate of people of subjoined ages.	Per million of each age of the vaccinated class.	Per million of each age of the unvaccinated class.

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The bodies removed to the Mortuary in 1888-9 were admitted upon application as follows :—

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1. With respect to illuminating power. The maximum, minimum, and average illuminating power, in standard sperm candles, the statutory standard being 1(3 candles, was as follows:—

	Maximum.	Minimum.	Average.

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Grains of sulphur per 100 cubic feet of gas; the Parliamentary limit being 17 grains in 100 cubic feet during the months from April to October, and 22 grains from October to April.

	Maximum.	Minimum.	Average.

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TABLE I. Shewing Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, in 1888, and ten preceding years.

The Year.	Estimated Population.*	No. of Inhabited Houses.†	Marriages.	Registered Births.	Deaths.
The Year.	Estimated Population.*	No. of Inhabited Houses.†	Marriages.	Registered Births.	Total all Ages.‡	Under One Year.	Under Five Years.	In Public Institutions §

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TABLE II. Shewing the Annual Birth Kate and Death Rate ; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1888 and ten preceding years.

The Year.	Birth Rate per 1,000 of the Population	Death Rate per 1,000 of the Population.	Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Registered Births.	Deaths of Children under 1 year : per 1,000 of Total Deaths.	Deaths of Children under 5 years; per 1,000 of Total Deaths.	Deaths in Public Institutions ; per 1,000 of Total Deaths.

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TABLE III. Deaths registered from all causes in the year 1888. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Parish, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions without the Parish)

CAUSES OF DEATH.		AGES.											Total under Years of Age.	GrandTotal All Ages	sub-districts.
CAUSES OF DEATH.		0 to 1.	1 to 5.	5 to 15.	1 15 to 25.	25 to 35.	35 to 45.	" 45 to 55.	55 to 65.	65 to 75.	75 to 85.	85 and	Total under Years of Age.	GrandTotal All Ages	Kensington Town	Brampton

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Shewing the number of Deaths at all ages in 1888 from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes; also the number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1,000 Births and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes under one year.

Division I. (Adults).	Total Deaths.	Deaths per 1,000 of Population at all ages.	Deaths per 1.000 of Total Deaths, at all ages.

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TABLE V. Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1878-87 and in the year 1888.

Diseases.		1878.	1879.	1880.	1881.	1882.	1883.	1884.	1885.	1886.	1887.	Annual Average of ten years 1878-87.	Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years 1878-87.	1888.	Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1888.

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Table VI Inspectors' Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the year 1888-9.

Sanitary Districts*	[o. of Complaints received during the year.	No. of Houses, Premises, &c., inspected.	No of Re-inspections of Houses, Premises, &c.	Results of Inspection.			House Drains.		Water Closets.			Dust Bins.		Water Supply.			Miscellaneous.
				Notices issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses and Premises.	Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed, &o.	Houses Disinfected after illness of an Infectious character.	Repaired, Cleansed, Trapped, &e.	[ Ventilated.	Repaired, &c.	Supplied with Water.	New Provided.	I New Provided.	Repaired, Covered &c.	Cisterns (new) erected.	j Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered.	Waste-pipes connected with Drains, &c. abolished.	No. of Lodging Houses Registered under 35th Section of the " Sanitary Act, 1866." §	Dust Removal—No. of Communications received and attended to. f	Removal of Accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse.	Animals removed, being improperly kept.	Regularly Inspected.			Legal Proceedings : i.e., Summonses.‡
					Houses, Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired, Whitewashed, &o.		Repaired, Cleansed, Trapped, &e.	[ Ventilated.	Repaired, &c.	Supplied with Water.	New Provided.	I New Provided.	Repaired, Covered &c.	Cisterns (new) erected.	j Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired, and Covered.	Waste-pipes connected with Drains, &c. abolished.				Animals removed, being improperly kept.	Bakehouses.	Licensed Cowsheds.	Licensed Slaughter Houses.	Legal Proceedings : i.e., Summonses.‡

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TABLE VIa . Summary of Monthly Returns of Work, &c., done by the Sanitary Inspectors, in the year 1888-9.

Date of Report.	Houses Inspected.				Mews Inspected.				Slaughter Houses Inspected.				Cowsheds Inspected.				Bakehouses Inspected.				Offensive Trades Inspected.				Sanitary Notices Issued.				Removal ot Dust, Ashes, &c., Letters of Bequest received and attended to.				Date of Report.
	District.				District.				District.				District.				District.				District.				District.				District.
	N.W.	N.E.	c.	s.	N.W.	N.E.	c.	s.	N.W.	N.E.	c.	s.	N.W	NE.	c.	s.	N w.	N E.	c.	s.	N.W.	N E	c.	s.	N.W	N.E.	c.	s.	N.W.	NE.	c.	s.

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TABLE VII. Shewing the Death Rate per 1,000 persons living: the Annual Rate per 1,000 from the principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; and the proportion of Deaths from these Diseases to total Deaths, in Kensington and in. all London, in 1888, and in ten preceding years.

The Year.	Deaths per 1,000 living.		Total Deaths from seven principal Zymotic Diseases, Kensington.	Annual rate of Mortality per 1,000 living, from seven principal Zymotic Diseases.		Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths, from seven principal Zymotic Diseases.		The Year.
The Year.	Kensington.	London.		Kensington.	London.	Kensington.	London.	The Year.

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TABLE VIII. Comparative Analysis of the Mortality in all London, and in Kensington, in 1888.

LOCALITY.	Annual Death Rate per 1,000 living, from all causes.	Annual Death Bate per 1,000 living, from seven principal Zymotic diseases.	Percentage of Deaths under 1 year to Births Registered.	PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS TO TOTAL DEATHS.
LOCALITY.	Annual Death Rate per 1,000 living, from all causes.		Percentage of Deaths under 1 year to Births Registered.	Under 1 year of age.	At 60 years of age and upwards.	From seven principal Zymotic diseases.	From Violence.	Registered upon information of Coroners. (Inquests.)	Registered at Public Institutions.*	Uncertified

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TABLE IX. Showing the Localities in which fatal cases of some of the Principal Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1838. KENSINGTON TOWN REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICT.

Locality.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping Cough.	Fever.		Diarrhoea.	Total.	Locality.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping Cough.	Fever.		Diarrhoea.	Total.
Locality.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping Cough.	Enteric.	Simple Continued.	Diarrhoea.	Total.	Locality.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping Cough.	Enteric.	Simple Continued.	Diarrhoea.	Total.

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TABLE X. Return respecting the Vaccination of Children whose births were Registered in 1887.*

Date.	Registration Sub-Districts comprised in Vaccination Officer¹ s District	Number of Births returned in Birth List Sheets.	Number of these Births duly entered in Columns 10,11 and 13 of the Vaccination Register (Birth List Sheets), viz.:				Number of these Births which are entered in the Vaccination Register, on account (as shewn by Eeport Book), of
			Column 11.				Postponement by Medical Certificate.	Removal to District the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.	Removal to places unknown or which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found.	Cases still under proceedings by summons and otherwise.
			Column 10 Successfully vaccinated.	Insusceptible of Successful vaccination.	Had Small-pox.	Column 13, Dead, Unvacci-nated.	Postponement by Medical Certificate.
1887.	1	2	3	4	5	6	8	9	10

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SOUTH OF UXBRIDGE ROAD.

LOCALITY.	LICENSEE.

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NORTH OF UXBRIDGE ROAD.

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SOUTH OF UXBEIDGE ROAD.

LOCALITY.	LICENSEE.

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The subjoined table shows the annual-death rate per 1,000 persons living, in each of the last eleven years, in Kensington, in London as a whole, and in all England:—

Kensington is for some local purposes divided into Wards : the subjoined table shows the acreage of the wards, their population, and the number of inhabited houses, etc., in 1871 and 1881.

The subjoined figures illustrate the development of the parish, in population and wealth, since the beginning of the century.

The subjoined Table sets out necessary particulars of the mortality from the principal zymotic diseases in 1888, together with the decennial average, etc:—

The following Table shews the distribution of deaths in Kensington from the principal diseases of the zymotic class, registered in thirteen four-weekly periods, corresponding with ny monthly reports:—

Statistics of Scaelet Fevee in Kensington in 1888 and in Nine 1 Peevious Yeaes.

Scarlet Fevee Cases Recorded in Kensington in 1888, and in Nine Peevious Years*, in Thirteen Four.Weekly Periods.

Table shewing Quarterly and Total Admissions of Small-Pox and Fever Patients at the Asylums Board Hospitals in 1888, and Population Of the several Parishes, Unions, and Districts in 1881.

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(a) ENTIRE PARISH.

(b) KENSINGTON TOWN SUB-DISTRICT.

(c) BROMPTON SUB-DISTRICT.

The subjoined Table shows the quarterly number of births of males and females in each of the sub-districts.

The Death—Rate per 1,000 persons living, at different periods of life, was as follows:—

The subjoined Table shews the quarterly number of deaths of parishioners, males and females, in each of the sub-districts, including: those that occurred at outlvins' miblic institutions:—

The subjoined Table shows the rate of mortality and the mean temperature of the air in each of thirteen periods of four weeks corresponding with my monthly reports.

I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

Summary of Causes of Death.

The fatal diseases may be classified as follows:—

Continued from previous page...

Comparative Small-pox Death Bates among Londoners, Vaccinated and Unvaccinated respectively, for the 52 weeks ended 29th May, 1881.

The bodies removed to the Mortuary in 1888-9 were admitted upon application as follows :—

1. With respect to illuminating power. The maximum, minimum, and average illuminating power, in standard sperm candles, the statutory standard being 1(3 candles, was as follows:—

Grains of sulphur per 100 cubic feet of gas; the Parliamentary limit being 17 grains in 100 cubic feet during the months from April to October, and 22 grains from October to April.

TABLE I. Shewing Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, in 1888, and ten preceding years.

TABLE II. Shewing the Annual Birth Kate and Death Rate ; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1888 and ten preceding years.

TABLE III. Deaths registered from all causes in the year 1888. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Parish, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions without the Parish)

TABLE V. Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1878-87 and in the year 1888.

Table VI Inspectors' Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the year 1888-9.

TABLE VIa . Summary of Monthly Returns of Work, &amp;c., done by the Sanitary Inspectors, in the year 1888-9.

TABLE VII. Shewing the Death Rate per 1,000 persons living: the Annual Rate per 1,000 from the principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; and the proportion of Deaths from these Diseases to total Deaths, in Kensington and in. all London, in 1888, and in ten preceding years.

TABLE VIII. Comparative Analysis of the Mortality in all London, and in Kensington, in 1888.

TABLE IX. Showing the Localities in which fatal cases of some of the Principal Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1838. KENSINGTON TOWN REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICT.

TABLE X. Return respecting the Vaccination of Children whose births were Registered in 1887.*

SOUTH OF UXBRIDGE ROAD.

NORTH OF UXBRIDGE ROAD.

SOUTH OF UXBEIDGE ROAD.

TABLE VIa . Summary of Monthly Returns of Work, &c., done by the Sanitary Inspectors, in the year 1888-9.