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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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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Class I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
The " Class " of diseases called Zymotic, comprises, in the
Registrar-General's arrangement of the " causes of death," six
"Orders." The first and second Orders ("Miasmatic" and
" Diarrhœal") include the diseases which the Registrar-
General describes as "the seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class," grouping, as he does, under the generic term
" Fever," the three fevers respectively named " Typhus,"
" Enteric," and " Simple Continued."

Table: The subjoined table shows the number of deaths from the principal diseases in 1895, together with the decennial average, &c.

The subjoined table shows the number of deaths from the principal diseases in 1895, together with the decennial average, &c.

Disease.Sub-districts.In Hospital.TotalDecennial Average.
TownBromptonTownBromptonUncorrected.Corrected for increase of Population.
Smallpox...............3.53.5
Measles3021...3381.782.5
Scarlet Fever1111232726.727.0
Diphtheria2994568954.454.9
hooping-Cough327......3975.876.6
Typhus Fever.....................
Enteric Fever654...1516.616.8
Simple Continued Fever1.........11.01.0
Diarrhoea100171...11882.983.7
20941639322342.6346

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It thus appears that the mortality from diphtheria and
diarrhoea was in excess, that from measles and whoopingcough
below average, and that from the remaining diseases
about average. From small-pcx there was no death. The
deaths were 24 below the corrected decennial
average. They were also 24 fewer that in 1894; and, as