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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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15.2 per 1000 in the female sex. It must be obvious, therefore,
that if the numbers of the sexes had been equal, the death-rate
would have been higher than the recorded rate of 17.5 per
1,000 The Registrar-General in his annual summary for
1892 dealt with the question, and gave the "factor for
correction for sex and age-distribution" in the thirty-three
great towns of England and Wales; and in his annual report
for 1898, the medical officer of health to the County Council
gave the factor for each of the sanitary districts of London.
Corrected after the method indicated, the death-rate of
Kensington in 1899, becomes, instead of 17.5, one of about 19.3
per 1000; and the rate for London, as a whole, about 21.1
instead of 19.8. The true death-rate is that which shows the
mortality per 1000 living of each sex at different age-periods,
and this is shown for the parish in the table at page 21

Table: The subjoined table shows the quarterly number of deaths of males and females, in the parish, and in each of the sub-districts.

The subjoined table shows the quarterly number of deaths of males and females, in the parish, and in each of the sub-districts.

Kensington TownBrompton.Parish.
Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total
1st Quarter3133476607098168828
2nd „2492715205068118638
3rd ,,3232976204774121741
4th n3043516557485159814
1189126624552413255663021
The Births were, of Males,1798The Deaths were, of Males,1430
„ Females,1792„ Females1591
Total Births,3590Total deaths,3,021
Deduct 3,021 Deaths
Shows 569 excess of Births over Deaths.