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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 1902
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year1902
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| Four Weeks ended | Metropolis. | Borough. | Sub-Districts. | Parliamentary Divisions. | Wards. | ||||||||||
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| Kensington Town. | Brompton. | North. | South. | St. Charles. | Golborne. | Norland. | Pembridge. | Holland. | Earl's Court. | Queen's Gate. | Redcliffe. | Brompton. | |||
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| 30.3 | |||||||||||||||
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SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS, KENSINGTON.
In the table at page 13 the principal vital and mortal statistics of the year have been
arranged in 13 four-weekly periods corresponding to the dates of the monthly reports, the maxima
and minima being indicated by distinctive type.
The birth-rate, as already stated, was 19.3 per 1,000, and 2.8 below the decennial average
(22.1); the death-rate, 15.2 per 1,000, and 1.1 below the decennial average (16.3). There were,
as usual, considerable fluctuations in the death-rate at different periods of the year; the rate
ranging between the minimum (11.6) in the eighth four-weekly period ended August 9th, and the
maximum (21.5) in the second period ended February 22nd. The rate was in eight of the periods
below, and in four above, the average for the year—which was also the rate in the twelfth period.
The deaths in the first half of the year (1,479) were 212 more than those in the second half (1,267),
the death-rate in the two half-periods being 16.7 and 14.3 per 1,000 respectively. The deaths from
the principal diseases of the zymotic class were 263; 57 fewer than in 1901, and 82
below the corrected average; 141 of them occurred in the first half of the year, 122 in the second.
Measles was the prevailing disease in the first half, the deaths numbering 85 out of a total of 93 in
the year. Of the 19 deaths from enteric fever, 14 occurred in the second half of the year. All of
the eleven deaths from small-pox occurred during the first half, and 69 of the 78 deaths from
diarrhœa in the second half. The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs. 614 (or 602 after
correction), were 91 more than 1901. Diseases of the heart were the causes of 243 deaths (238
after correction); those from phthisis 225 (221 after correction), and those from tubercular diseases
in children under five years of age, 54.
The mean temperature of the air at Greenwich during the year was 48.8° Fahr. (and 1.5
below the means in the ten preceding years—50.3); the means of the four quarters successively being
40.5, 50.5, 59.1, and 45.4.