Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year 1895
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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths registered, inclusive of 308 deaths of
parishioners at outlying public institutions, etc., but exclusive
of the deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions, etc.
within the parish, were 2,748 (males 1,284 and females 1,464),
and 87 below the corrected decennial average number (2,835).
Of these deaths 2,231 belong to the Town sub-district, and 517
to Brompton. The death-rate, which in the preceding three
years had been 17.2, 17.5, and 15.7, per 1000, respectively, was
16.4 per 1,000 in 1895, being 0.5 below the decennial rate
(16.9), and 3.4 below the rate in the Metropolis as a whole
(19 8); this moreover being 0"3 below the decennial average,
201 per 1,000.* The rate in the male sex was 19 3 per
1,000, the rate in the female sex 145 per 1,000, compared with
19'8, and 12 9, in 1894. The rate was, in the Town sub-district
187, and in the Brompton sub-district 107, per 1000;
compared with 17*6, and 110, in 1894. The rate in North
Kensington (as previously defined at page 1), was 21*4 per
1,000, the rate in South Kensington was 12'1 per 1,000.
The rate in the seven sanitary districts was, approximately,
as follows:—
Persons Living.
North District, 596 deaths, equal to 19.2 per 1,000
North-East District 353 deaths, equal to 16.0 per 1,000
North-West District, A 266 deaths, equal to 20.3 per 1,000
North-West District, B 529 deaths, equal to 33.3 per 1,000
Central District 267 deaths, equal to 13 2 per 1,000
South-East District 293 deaths, equal to 90 per 1,000
South-West District 444 deaths, equal to 14.4 per 1,000
The Registrar-General states, in his Annual Summary, that 11 by
excluding the deaths occurring in Metropolitan institutions of persons
ascertained to have been strangers, the death-rate of London is reduced to
19.4 per 1,000." against a decennial average of 19*8,