Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1901
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Public Health (London) Act, 1891; Proposed Amendment of the 83
Public Institutions; Deaths at 31
Public (and Public House) Sanitary Conveniences 96
Public Mortuary; Number of Bodies deposited at 97
„ „ Limitation of Power to compulsorily remove Bodies to the 98
Puerperal Mortality 29
Rateable Value of Kensington; Increase in Seventy-eight years, 1823-1901 7
Refuse; House 88
„ Peat Stable; New By-law with reference to the Conveyance of, through Streets 89
,, Stable; The Borough Engineer recommends the Removal of, by the Council 90
Registered Houses; Number of 65
„ „ Proposed Amended By-laws for 64
,, Artizans' Dwellings not Registerable under Sec. 94, Public Health Act 66
Registration of Houses Let in Lodgings, etc. ; The Advantages of 66
Registration District and Sub-Districts 3
Respiratory System: Diseases of 30
Royal Commission (New) on Tuberculosis, Appointed 37
St. Joseph's House : Quasi-public Institution ; Number of Deaths at 32
Sanitary Conveniences; Public, and Public-House 96
Sanitary Inspecting Districts; Increased Number of 83
Sanitary Inspectors; Improved Position of the 83
„ „ The Work of the 84
„ ,, Metropolitan; Increase in the Number of the (Table, page 84) 83
Scarlet Fever; In Kensington, and in London 23
„ „ Mortality in Kensington; 1856—1901 (Tables B, C and D) 123
Senile Mortality 11
Septic Diseases; Deaths from 29
Sewer Ventilation: Ventilating Lamp Columns erected 94
Sewers; Ventilation of 94
Sex and Age-Distribution of the Population of the Borough (Table) 4
Shelter for Persons during Disinfection of rooms: A Desideratum 99
„ „ „ „ The need of: Statistical Evidence 99
Slaughter-Houses; Licensed 86
Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899; Adopted by the Council 62
Small-pox; In Kensington and in London 19
„ Notes on the Epidemic of 19
,, Diagnosis of 21
,, Precautionary Measures with respect to 20
„ Action of the Local Government Board and the School Board with respect to 21, 22
„ Action of the Council with respect to 23
„ Hospital Accommodation for 23,56
„ Mortality, Annual; 1856-1901 (Tables B, C, and D) 123,124
Smoke Nuisance 86
Special Area (Notting Dale); Statistics of the 12
Statistical Tables : Forms for, Prescribed by the Local Government Board 16
„ „ Nos. vi.—xii. (Appendix I.) 104
„ „ Of Marriages, Births, Deaths, &c., 1856-1901 (Appendix II.) (Table A) 122
Statutory Notices; Number of, Issued 84
Streets, etc., in which Cases of Infectious Disease were Notified in 1901 (Table XIV.) 116
„ „ Deaths from Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1901 (Table XIII.) 113
„ Asphalte-paved in 1901 97
Tables prescribed by the Local Government Board to be used:—
(i.) Population, Births, Deaths under One Year, and at All Ages, and in Public Institutions,
etc.; in 1901, and ten preceding years 16
(ii.) Population, Births, Deaths at All Ages, and under One Year ; in the Borough, and the Sub-
Districts ; in 1901, and ten preceding years 17
(iii.) Death; Causes of, and Ages at, in 1901 50
(iv.) Infectious Diseases; Cases of, Notified at different Ages, in the Borough, and the Sub-
Districts, and Cases Removed to Hospital 17
Tables (Other) in the Report:—
Population; Age and Sex-Distribution of, in 1901 4
„ At the Censuses, 1801—1901 6
Death-rate in the Metropolis, the Borough, the Sub-Districts, the Parliamentary Divisions, and
the Wards, in 1901 13
Death Summary of Borough ; Cause of, in the Borough ; in 1901 18
Zymotic Diseases ; Deaths from, in the Borough and the Sub-Districts; occurring at Home and
at Hospitals 18
Scarlet Fever : Notifications, Removals, Deaths, etc. ; in four-weekly Periods in 1901, and in ten
preceding years 25
Diphtheria: Notifications, Removals, Deaths, etc., in four-weekly Periods 26
Infectious Disease Notification; Kensington and London 49
(v.) „ „ Sickness and Death-rate, Kensington, 1890—1901 51
Vaccination Officer's Return for 1900; and Statistics of Vaccination, in London, and England
and Wales, 1885-1898 (Table) 34, 35
Women Inspectors of Workshops, etc.; Summary of the Work of the 77
Sanitary Inspectors; Summary of the Work of the 85