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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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DEATH-RATE IN ENGLAND AND WALES, AND
IN LONDON, AND IN OTHER LARGE TOWNS.
The death-rate in England and Wales in 1899 was 18.3
per 1,000, which is higher than the rate in either of the preceding
three years, but 0.l below the decennial average. The
rate in London, as already stated, was 19.8 per 1,000, being
0.1 below the decennial average: but by excluding the deaths
of persons ascertained to have been strangers, the death-rate of
London is reduced to 19.3 per 1,000.
The subjoined table shows the annual death-rate per 1,000 persons living in each of the last eleven years, in Kensington, in London and in England and Wales:—
| 1899. | 1898 | . 1897. | 1896. | 1895. | 1894. | 1893. | 1892. | 1891. | 1890. | 1889. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 16.3 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.4 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 17.2 | 18.4 | 17.8 | 14.6 | |
| London | 18.7 | 18.2 | 18.6 | 19.8 | 17.8 | 21.3 | 20.6 | 21.4 | 21.4 | 18.4 | |
| W. Districts | 17.0 | 16.1 | 17.6 | 18.5 | 17.1 | 19.7 | 20.0 | 20.8 | 20.5 | 18.1 | |
| North ,, | 16.9 | 16.6 | 17.1 | 18.2 | 16.3 | 20.2 | 19.4 | 20.0 | 19.6 | 16.9 | |
| Central ,, | 22.1 | 21.8 | 21.2 | 23.8 | 20.0 | 25.7 | 23.9 | 26.5 | 24.8 | 20.9 | |
| East ,, | 21.7 | 21.2 | 21.3 | 23.4 | 20.8 | 24.9 | 23.5 | 24.0 | 25.1 | 21.2 | |
| South ,, | 17.7 | 17.2 | 17.5 | 18.3 | 16.2 | 19.5 | 19.0 | 19.8 | 19.6 | 17.7 | |
| England and Wales | 17.6 | 17.4 | 17.1 | 18.7 | 16.6 | 19.2 | 19.0 | 20.2 | 19.5 | 18.2 |
Greater London.—The death-rate in "Greater London,"
which is co-extensive with the Metropolitan and City Police
Districts, the population in the middle of the year, 1899,
numbering 6,528,434 (viz., 4,546,752 in inner or Registration
London, and 1,981,682 in the Outer Ring), was 18.3 per 1,000,
as compared with 17.0, 16.7, and 17.2, in the three preceding
years respectively. The deaths properly belonging to the
Outer Ring, as distinguished from Inner or Registration
London, were equivalent to a rate of only 14.8, the rate in
the Inner Ring having been 18.7. The death-rate from the