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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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public institutions. The cases notified numbered 18,112, as
compared with 16,917 in 1898, 22,876 in 1897, 25,638 in 1896,
19,757 in 1895, 18,440 in 1894, and 36,901 in 1893. The
mortality was 22 per cent. on cases notified, against 3.4 in
1898 and 1897; 3.7 in 1896; 41 in 1895; 5.2 in 1894, and
43 in 1893. Nearly 78 per cent. of notified cases were admitted
to hospitals. The case-mortality in hospitals (admissions,
14,095), was 2.3 per cent.
The subjoined table shows the degree of prevalence of
the disease in the parish, and in London, as a whole, as
indicated by the number of notifications, and of deaths
registered, in thirteen successive four-weekly periods, as set
out in my reports.

Table: Scarlet Fever in 1899.

Scarlet Fever in 1899.

Report. for four weeks. endedNo. of NotificationsNo. of cases admitted to hospitalsNo. of DeathsNo. of cases in Hospital at the end of the period.
KensingtonLondon.Kensington.London.Kensington.London.
Jan. 28261374199801392679
Feb. 2520128414961—262575
March 25201081168541272355
April 2226905186691252144
May 20251167209151272161
June 17381318291029—212280
July 153915943312511312601
August 12461408381123—272674
Sept. 93412462710201252550
Oct. 74819073815701263003
Nov. 4432124331647—363539
Dec. 25516504312492413445
Dec. 30231054158271472881
44318,11234314,09510398

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The notifications are taken from the weekly returns of the Asylums Board;
the admissions to, and the numbers in, the hospitals, and the deaths in London,
rom the weekly returns of the Registrar-General.