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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 1899
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1899
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DEATHS IN KENSINGTON FROM TUBERCULAR DISEASES, IN 1899. (Vide Page 120.)
| Disease. | Total Numberof Deathsin Parish. | Registration Districts. | ParliamentaryDivisions. | SanitaryDistricts. | Place of Death. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington Town. | Brompton. | North Kensington. | South Kensington. | N. | N.E. | N.W. | C. | S.E. | S.W. | j At Home. | Kensington Infirmary. | Outlying Institutions. | Brompton Hospital Kensington Section. | |||
| Phthisis | 221 | 193 | 28 | 156 | 65 | 42 | 34 | 65 | 34 | 11 | 35 | 116 | 75 | 25 | 5 | |
| Other Tubercular Diseases1 | 98 | 83 | 15 | 69 | 29 | 26 | 11 | 23 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 73 | 14 | 11 | ... | |
| Totals | 319 | 276 | 43 | 225 | 94 | 68 | 45 | 88 | 48 | 24 | 46 | 189 | 89 | 36 | 5 | |
| Death-rate per 10,000 persons living | 19 | 22 | 9 | 26 | 11 | 20 | 15 | 52† | 18 | 7 | 14 | |||||
*Namely Tabes Mesenterica (14 deaths); Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus (37); and other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula (47.) The
Return does not include deaths from debility, atrophy, inanition, convulsions, or rickets, 146 in all.
†Special Area, 42 deaths=105 per 10,000 persons living, or about one per cent of the population. In the North-West District, less the Special Area, there were
46 deaths 36 per 10,000.