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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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With the exception of small-pox, measles and enteric fever, the mortality from these diseases
was below the average.
| Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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District Zymotic Rate.— The deaths in North Kensington were 213 and the rate 2.33
per 1,000 persons living. In South Kensington the deaths were 50 and the rate 0.58 per 1,000.
The rate in the several wards, the first four named being in North Kensington, and the last five
in South Kensington, was as follows:—
North
Kensington
St. Charles 62 deaths, or 2.8 per 1,000 persons living.
Golborne 72 deaths, or 2.7 per 1,000 persons living.
Norland 49 deaths, or 2.1 per 1,000 persons living.
Pembridge 30 deaths, or 1.5 per 1,000 persons living.
South
Kensington
Holland 19 deaths, or 0.9 per 1,000 persons living.
Earl's Court 6 deaths, or 0.3 per 1,000 persons living.
Queen's Gate 6 deaths, or 0.4 per 1,000 persons living.
Redcliffe 12 deaths, or 0.6 per 1,000 persons living.
Brompton 7 deaths, or 0.5 per 1,000 persons living.
The table at p. 13 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases, as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given, in Tables B, C, and D, pp. 153-154,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the forty-seven years, 1856-1902;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each of the diseases and the death-rate
therefrom; in Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennial periods; in Table D, the
rate per 1,000 of the population, in quinquennial periods, from the four notifiable diseases (smallpox,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, and "fever"), and the three non-notifiable diseases—measles,
whooping-cough, and diarrhœa.
In England and Wales the deaths from the principal zymotic diseases were at the rate of
1.64 per 1,000 persons living, the decennial average being about 2.12 per 1,000. In the seventysix
great towns, including London, the average rate was 2.12, ranging from 0.63 at Hornsey, 0.78
at Bournemouth and 0.82 at Hastings to 3.20 at West Ham, 3.61 at Burnley and 3.84 at Hanley.