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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 1895
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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DEATH-RATES IN ENGLAND AND WALES; AND
IN LONDON; AND IN OTHER LARGE TOWNS.
Before entering upon details with respect to the causes
of death in Kensington, I may mention, by way of comparison
with our local mortality-rates, that the death-rate in
England and Wales, in 1895, was 187 per 1000, which shows
an increase of 2.l per 1000 on the low rate in 1894, but is 0.2
below the average in the ten years 1885-94. The rate in
London, as already stated, was 19.8 per 1000, and was 0.3
below the decennial average, (20.1.)
The subjoined table shews the annual death-rate per 1000 persons living, in each of the last eleven years, in Kensington, in London, and in England and Wales:—
| 1895 | 1894 | 1893 | 1892. | 1891. | 1890. | 1889. | 1888. | 1887. | 1886. | 1885. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 16.4 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 17.2 | 18.4 | 17.8 | 14.6 | 17.1 | 17.4. | 16.7 | 16.8 |
| London | 19.8 | 17.8 | 21.3 | 20.6 | 21.4 | 21.4 | 18.4 | 19.3 | 20.3 | 20.6 | 20.4 |
| W.Districts | 18.5 | 17.1 | 19.7 | 20.0 | 20.8 | 20.5 | 18.1 | 19.3 | 19.9 | 19.8 | 19.9 |
| North „ | 18.2 | 16.3 | 20.2 | 19.4 | 20.0 | 19.6 | 16.9 | 17.7 | 18.9 | 18.9 | 19.3 |
| Central,, | 23.8 | 20.0 | 25.7 | 23.9 | 26.5 | 24.8 | 20.9 | 22.7 | 23.5 | 23.4 | 22.9 |
| East „ | 23.4 | 20.8 | 24.9 | 23.5 | 24.0 | 25.1 | 21.2 | 22.7 | 23.3 | 23.9 | 23.0 |
| South „ | 18.3 | 16.2 | 19.5 | 19.0 | 19.8 | 19.6 | 17.7 | 18.1 | 19.4 | 19.9 | 19.1 |
| England and Wales | 18.7 | 16.6 | 19.2 | 19.0 | 20.2 | 19.5 | 18.2 | 18.1 | 19.1 | 19.5 | 19.2 |
Greater London.— The death-rate in "Greater London,"
which is co-extensive with the Metropolitan and City police
districts, the population in 1895 numbering 6,048,555 (viz.,
4,392,346 in Inner London, and 1,656,209 in the Outer Ring)
was 18.4 per 1000, the rate in the preceding three years having
been, successively, 19 3, 19 7, and 16.5. The deaths properly
belonging to the Outer Ring, as distinguished from Inner or
Registration London, were equivalent to a rate of only 145
per 1000, the rate in the Inner Ring, as already shewn, having
been 19.8. The death-rate from the principal zymotic diseases
in Inner London, was 2 - 64 per 1000; in the Outer Ring, 1.98;
the rate for Greater London, as a whole, being 2.46 per 1000.