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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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set out in my four-weekly reports. In this table it has not
been possible to make the afore-mentioned correction; so that
the total differs to the number of 2,214 notifications (or about 5
per cent, in excess) compared with the corrected number of
notifications. The Kensington notifications, after correction
for duplicate returns (of which there were 68) were 1,289,
viz., in the Town sub-district 1,069, and in the Brompton subdistrict
220. The notifications in 1893, and 1894, were 1,811,
and 972, respectively. Table IX.A (Appendix) shows the
streets, &c., where cases of the scheduled diseases occurred.
The total cases notified in London were 41,512 : 587 more than
the total in 1894, but 25,973 fewer than the total in 1893.
The notifications of each of the scheduled diseases during the
six years 1891-95, after correction for duplicate certificates,
are set out in the subjoined Table.
Total Notifications in London:
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Other Continued Fevers. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Croup. | Cholera. | Relapsing Fever. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 60 | 15,330 | 5,870 | 2877 | 35 | 237 | 206 | 4598 | 550 | 25 | 7 | 29,795 |
| 1891 | 114 | 11,398 | 5,907 | 3372 | 27 | 152 | 221 | 4764 | 505 | 23 | 39 | 26,522 |
| 1892 | 423 | 27,096 | 7,791 | 2465 | 20 | 147 | 347 | 6934 | 565 | 54 | 7 | 45,849 |
| 1893 | 2813 | 36,901 | 13,026 | 3663 | 22 | 205 | 397 | 9700 | 668 | 86 | 4 | 67,485 |
| 1894 | 1192 | 18,440 | 10,655 | 3360 | 21 | 162 | 253 | 6080 | 535 | 21 | 2 | 40,925* |
| 1895 | 978 | 19,757 | 10,772 | 3506 | 14 | 105 | 236 | 5660 | 451 | 29 | 3 | 41,511 |
* This total includes 204 cases of diarrhoea.
Note. — The form for table "B," on page 67 was
prepared by the Local Government Board in order that a
" tabular statement of infectious sickness should be made in
all districts on a uniform plan : " the table, which is based
on the infectious disease register, is required to be appended
to the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.