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Kensington 1902

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year1902

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Table: TABLE X.(Table V. in Annual Reports prior to 1900).Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in ten years, 1892-1901, and in the year 1902.

TABLE X.(Table V. in Annual Reports prior to 1900).Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in ten years, 1892-1901, and in the year 1902.

DISEASES.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1899.1900.1901.Annual Average of ten years, 1892-1901.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from a11 causes in ten years, 1892-1901.Deaths in 1902.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in 1902.
Small-pox...9.....................11.00.4114.0
Measles10918108331733312024987779.328.49333.9
Scarlet Fever365122273929231041525.69.2217.6
Diphtheria3183758972822642273856.520.3207.3
Whooping-cough6365613999195259336255.219.8217.6
Typhus Fever..................2......10.30.2...–
Enteric Fever1517211515211223161116.66.01969
Simp. Continued Fever2...3111............0.80.3......
Diarrhœa7798561186112511210110511596.834.77828.4
TOTALS.Kensington333341346322460310347259283320332119.326395.7
London11,98313,22311,54411,54414,10011,52512,56511,22810,18710,20311,810139.110,393125.9
England & Wales56,03273,49952,77164,90166,93667,05169,71469,82064,05966,53165,131117.653,795100.1