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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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Statistics of Scarlet Fever in Kensington in 1902, and in the Ten Preceding Years.
| The Year. | No. of Recorded Cases. | Total N umber ofRecorded Cases | Percentage of Removals to total Recorded Cases. | Deaths. | Total Deaths. | Percentage of Deaths. | Percentage of Deaths toRecorded Cases. | Deaths inLondon from Scarlet Fever. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treated at Home. | Removed toHospital. | AtHome. | InHbspitals. | AtHome. | InHospitals. | ||||||
| 1902 | 61 | 311 | 372 | 84 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 10 | 90 | 5.6 | 563 |
| 1901 | 92 | 383 | 475 | 81 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 27 | 73 | 3.2 | 584 |
| 1900 | 74 | 290 | 364 | 79 | — | 4 | 4 | — | 100 | 1.4 | 361 |
| 1899 | 101 | 344 | 445 | 77 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 80 | 2.2 | 398 |
| 1898 | 117 | 361 | 478 | 76 | 1 | 22 | 23 | 3.4 | 95.6 | 4.8 | 583 |
| 1897 | 188 | 561 | 749 | 75 | 3 | 26 | 29 | 10.3 | 89.7 | 3.9 | 780 |
| 1896 | 248 | 763 | 1011 | 75 | 7 | 32 | 39 | 18 | 82 | 3.9 | 942 |
| 1895 | 167 | 358 | 525 | 68 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 44 | 56 | 5.1 | 829 |
| 1894 | 131 | 259 | 390 | 66 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 77 | 5.6 | 962 |
| 1893 | 389 | 568 | 957 | 59 | 10 | 41 | 51 | 24 | 76 | 5.3 | 1596 |
| 1892 | 259 | 456 | 715 | 64 | 9 | 27 | 36 | 25 | 75 | 5.0 | 1174 |
DIPHTHERIA.
Cases of diphtheria and membranous croup to the aggregate number of 184 were notified,
compared with 257, 332, and 250, in the three preceding years: 101 in North Kensington and 83 in
South Kensington. The deaths registered were 20 (against 42, 27, and 38, in the three preceding
years), and 39 below the corrected decennial average (59): 17 belong to the Town Sub-district, and
3 to Brompton ; 11 to North Kensington, and 9 to South Kensington. The mortality was 10.9 per
cent. on cases notified. Twelve of the deaths took place in hospitals, to which 147 cases were
removed—a case mortality of 8.2 per cent. Fourteen of the deaths were of children under five
years of age, including one under one year.
Detailed information in regard to diphtheria mortality in the borough—1871-1902—is set out
in Appendix II., Tables B, C, and D, pp. 153-154.
The deaths in London, as a whole (including those from membranous croup) were 1,181, and
only slightly above a half of the corrected decennial average, 2,288; compared with 1,964,1,558, and
1,344, in the three preceding years. The notified cases were 10,735, compared with 13,701, 11,988,
and 12,154, in the three preceeding years. In 1902, 8,086 cases were admitted to the hospitals*
(compared with 8,777 and 9,090 in the two preceding years), and the deaths in hospital were 745,
a case-mortality of 113 per cent. At the close of the year there were 927 cases under treatment in
the hospitals, compared with 1,343 and 1,369, at the corresponding period in the two preceding
years.
• Including nearly 1,400 cases of mistaken diagnosis = 17 2 per cent.