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During the ten years April 1st, 1891, to March 31st, 1901, the inter-censal period, 31,794
deaths were registered in the borough.
Table A, Appendix II. (page 122) gives the number of deaths and the death-rate for each of
the forty-six years 1856-1901.
Infantile Mortality, or the proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered
births, is an important factor in vital statistics. The deaths under one year, which in the three
preceding years had been 655, 642, and 641, respectively, were 581 in 1901, being equivalent to
161 per 1,000 births, or 18 fewer than in 1900. The rate in the Metropolis, always below that
of Kensington, was 149 in each 1,000 births, as compared with an average proportion of 160 per
1,000 in the ten preceding years. In England and Wales the rate was 151, which is 3 per 1,000
below the mean proportion in the ten years 1891-1900. In the Town sub-district the deaths under
one year (506) were equivalent to 166 per 1,000 births, those in Brompton (75) to 135 per 1,000.
The deaths in North Kensington were 447, or 173 per 1,000 ; the deaths in South Kensington
134, or 131 per 1,000. In the several wards the rate was as follows—
St. Charles 102 deaths, or 174 per 1,000 registered births.
Golborne 168 deaths, or 178 per 1,000 registered births.
Norland 129 deaths, or 207 per 1,000 registered births.
Pembridge 48 deaths, or 113 per 1,000 registered births.
Holland 34 deaths, or 128 per 1,000 registered births.
Earl's Court 31 deaths, or 143 per 1,000 registered births.
Queen's Gate 20 deaths, or 160 per 1,000 registered births.
Redcliffe 31 deaths, or 123 per 1,000 registered births.
Brompton 18 deaths, or 107 per 1,000 registered births.
Table A, Appendix II. (page 122) gives the number of deaths under one year, and the
rate per 1,000 of births registered (the " infantile mortality "), for each of the thirty-one years
1871-1901, during my tenure of office.
The deaths of children over one year and under five years of age were 295; the total
deaths under five years, therefore, were 876, compared with 1,039, 932, and 877, in the three
preceding years, being equal to 243 per 1,000 births ; the relative proportion in London as a
whole being 221. The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age, 87, 103, and 86,
in the three preceding years respectively, were 96 in 1901, of which 87 were registered in the Town
sub-district, and 9 in Brompton. These deaths were equal to 58.5 per cent, on the 164 births
registered as illegitimate. Of the 96 children, 25 only survived the first year of life.
Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards there were 800 deaths, as compared
with 862, 943, and 868, in the three preceding years respectively. These deaths were
equivalent to 302 per 1,000 deaths at all ages. The relative proportion in all London was 262 per
1,000.
District Rates of Mortality.—The table at page 13 shows (inter alia) the death-rate
in the sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the wards for the year, and also for each
of the thirteen four-weekly periods covered by the monthly reports. As usual, the rate was far