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Kensington 1901

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1901

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TABLE X. (Table V. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.) Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years, 1891.1900, and in the year 1901.

Diseases.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1899.1900.Annual Average of ten years, 1891.1900.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in ten years, 1891.1900.Deaths in 1901.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in 1901.
Small.pox......9.....................0.90.310.4
Measles29109181083317333120249874.526.37729.1
Scarlet Fever163651222739292310425.791155.6
Diphtheria2831837589728226422755.519.68814.3
Whooping.cough8463656139991952598357.42086223.4
Typhus Fever.....................2......0.20.010.4
Enteric Fever241517211515211223161796.3114.1
Simp. Continued Fever12...3111.........0.90.3......
Diarrhœa917798561186112511210110594.433.311548.4
TOTALS.Kensington.2733333341346322460310347259283327115.5320120.7
London.9,67511,98313,22311,54411,54414,10011,52512,56511,22810,18711,757130.810,203127.6
England & Wales.53,22156,03278,49952,77164,90166,93667,05169,71469,82064,05968,800115.266,581120.7