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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1893
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year 1893
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weeks of the year, the lowest (=13.9) in the four weeks ended
May 20th. The mean temperature of the air (51.1 Fahr.)
was 1.9° above the means in the preceding fifty-three years.
The death-rate in the first four weeks of the year ended
January 28th, the highest save one in 1893, was 23.2 per 1,000
of the estimated population, and l.0 above the decennial
average (22.2). It was 3.9 below the rate in the Metropolis as
a whole (27.1) this being 1.2 above the decennial average (25.9).
The deaths from the principal diseases of the zymotic class
were ten in number, and twelve below the corrected decennial
average; viz., diphtheria 5, scarlet fever and whooping-cough 2
each, and enteric fever 1. The mortality from the diseases of
the respiratory organs was greater than in any other month:
the deaths from these causes were 124, including bronchitis 84,
and puenmonia 22. The deaths of children under five years
of age were 57, including 39 under one year. The deaths at
sixty years of age and upwards were 119, the highest number
recorded in 1893, and corresponding with the number recorded
in the last four weeks of the year. The mean temperature of
the air was 34.2° Fahr. and 3.7 below the means in the corresponding
weeks in the preceding ten years (37.9).
In the second four-weekly period of the year (5th-8th
weeks, January 29th to February 25th) the death-rate fell (from
23.2) to 14.2, and was 4.2 below the average (18.4). It was 5.3
below the Metropolitan rate (19.5), this however being 2.5
below the average (22.0). The deaths from the principal
zymotic diseases were again ten, and nine below the corrected
average number; viz., three each from scarlet fever and diphtheria,
and two each from whooping-cough and diarrhoea. There were
six deaths from influenza in Kensington and 96 in London.
The diseases of the respiratory organs were fatal to 47 persons
only, a reduction of 77 compared with the previous month: 32
of these deaths were due to bronchitis and seven to pneumonia.
The deaths of children under five years fell (from 57)