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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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NEW LIST OF CAUSES OF DEATH.
The Registrar-General issued, in 1902, a "New List of Causes of Death" as used in the
Annual Reports for England and Wales, together with "Suggestions to Medical Practitioners
respecting Certificates of Causes of Death," in which it is stated to be "highly desirable that
Medical Practitioners should use only those terms which are recognised by the Royal College of
Physicians of London."* This List will henceforth take the place of that used in these reports for
many years in the form of Table III., and since 1900 as Table VIII. It comprises the "General
Diseases," i.e., those in which the whole body may be said to suffer, and the "Local Diseases,"
of various systems and organs, set out in Table VIII. at page 132.
The first twenty diseases are those formerly described as "Specific, Febrile or Zymotic
Diseases;" chief among them being the nine "Principal Zymotic diseases;" three of which were
formerly associated under the generic name "Fever," which comprises three distinct diseases, viz.:
Typhus-fever, Enteric-fever, and Simple continued fever.

Table: TABLE I. (Requried by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical officer of Health.) For Whole District.

TABLE I. (Requried by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical officer of Health.) For Whole District.

Year.Population estimated to Middle of each Year.Births.Deaths under One Year of Age.Deaths at all Ages. Total.Deathsin Public Institutions.Deaths ofNonresidents registered inDistrict.Deaths of Residents registered beyond District.Deaths Ages.at allNett.
Number.Rate.†Number.Rate per 1,000 Births registeredNumber.Rate.†Number.Rate.†
12345678910111213
1892167,2003,71822.25871583,27219.61,0556262362,88217.2
1893167,9003,66121.86251703,22519.21,0426213122,91617.4
1894168,6003,66521.76361742,98317.71,0706432832,62315.6
1895169,3003,62121.46241723,06518.11,0626253082,74816.2
1896170,0003,71721.46561763,15818.61,0656203532,89116.7
1897170,7003,68321.66091653,02517.71,1646913332,66715.6
1898172,0003,63321.16551803,15118.31,1236392862,79816.3
1899172,4003,59020.86421793,42219.81,3207223213,02117.5
1900173,0003,58620.76411793,08717.71,1326722832,69815.6
1901177,0003,60220.45811612,96416.71,1086353212,65015.0
Averages for years 1892-1901170,8103,64721.36251713,13518.31,1146493032,78916.3
1902177,5003,48819.35151483,11217.21,1826813152,74615.2

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Note. The deaths included in columns 7 and 9 of this Table are all those registered during
the year within the Borough. The Deaths included in column 12 are the number in column 7
corrected by the subtraction of the number in column 10, and the addition of the number in column 11
term "non-residents" in column 10, means persons brought into the Borough or
account of illness and dying there. The term "residents" in column 11, means persons taken out
of the Borough on account of illness and dying thereout.
Area of Borough in acres 2,291 Total population at all ages 177,500
No. (approximate) of inhabited houses 23,000
Average number of persons per house 7.7
. * The Registrar-General placed at my disposal a sufficient number of copies of the New List to enable me to forward on
to each registered medical practitioner in the borough, which was done in October.
† Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.