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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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The Kensington notifications (including 669 of chicken-pox) were 1,608; viz., 1,373 in the
Town sub-district, and 235 in Brompton. The notifications in the ten preceding years were 1,182,
1,811, 972, 1,289, 1,781, 1,457, 1,004, 1,046, 986 and 1,025. In 1902 the notifications, excluding
chicken-pox, were 939, the lowest number in any year excepting 1890 (787), compulsory notification
having come into force in October, 1889.
Table XIV. (appendix, p. 146) shows the streets, etc., where cases of the scheduled diseases
(some cases of Chicken-pox excepted) occurred.
The cases notified in London were 71,790, including 25,708 of chicken-pox. Irrespective of
that disease the number was 46,082, and 79 more than in 1901.

Table: The notifications of each of the diseases during the thirteen years 1890-1902 are set out in the subjoined table.

The notifications of each of the diseases during the thirteen years 1890-1902 are set out in the subjoined table.

Year.Small-pox.Chicken-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Croup.Cholera.Relapsing Fever.Total.
189060...15,3305,8702,877352372064,59855025729,795
1891114...11,3985,9073,372271522214,764505233926,522
1892423...27,0967,7912,465201473476,93456554745,849
18932,813...36,90113,0263,663222053979,70066886467,485
18941,192...18,44010,6553,360211622536,08053521240,721
1895978...19,75710,7723,506141052365,66045129341,511
1896225...25,63813,3613,18961022786,43844613349,699
1897105...22,87612,8113,1134652645,80138838145,466
189835...16,91711,5612,03217552505,18031023—37,380
189929...18,11213,3634,46014693295,61533815—42,344
190087...13,81211,7884,3097732374,7762105—35,304
19011,702...18,38711,9673,19320482504,6041873—40,361
19027,79425,70818,24610,5423,4054483135,5371921-71,790

Table: The Ages at Notification of certain of the diseases, in 1902, were as follows :—

The Ages at Notification of certain of the diseases, in 1902, were as follows :—

Age.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric l. Fever.Erysipelas.Puerperal . Fever.Chickenpox, from 1st February.
0—1 year1762302266169_2,451
1—55055,6463,933146232_11,096
5—6476,9723,437398207_9,199
10—6052,7991,234561263—1,384
15—8641,15261253632712375
20—1,18670246452829186211
25—1,934570536719758152188
35—1,0901351943091,0395966
45—49233621401,037225
55—191102745660_8
65 and upwards1063518551—4
Age not stated——112—2
7,79618,25210,7313,4075,53631125,009*

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Plague was made notifiable by the Local Government Board in 1901, but no case of the
disease occurred in the Metropolis in that year or in 1902.