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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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Table: Causes of Deaths of Infants, of Year, in the several Wards.(For distribution of deaths in Sub-districts see Table page 63.)

Causes of Deaths of Infants, of Year, in the several Wards.(For distribution of deaths in Sub-districts see Table page 63.)

WARDS.ST. CHARLES.GOLBORNE.NORLAND.PEMBRIDGE.HOLLAND.EARLS COURT.QUEEN'S GATE.REDCLIFFE.BROMPTON.Total.
SEX.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
Principal Diseases of Zymotic class2...2123123..................2......18*
Diarrhœa951563535221.........2......260
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs181419132020934232222234142
Diseases of the Digestive System4510521......131...1...21...137
Diseases of the Nervous System2311535...5121111......234
Tubercular Diseases3....45411.........1...1...............20
Wasting Diseases928411846...43...213...1...66
Premature Birth8387121155...35312141281
Deaths from Violence......3...31...........................11110
Sundry Other Causes1...4357113132......14...238
=506

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* Viz.: Measles, 15 ; Small Pox (unvaccinated), 1; Scarlet Fever, 1; Whooping Cough, 1; Diarrhœa, 60. Of the deaths from the latter cause 51 occurred in North Kensington as did 11 of
the deaths from Measles and the death from Small Pox.