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In England and Wales the rate was 133, which is 21 per 1,000 below the mean proportion
in the ten years 1892-1901.
In the 76 great towns of England and Wales the rate averaged 145, ranging from 84 at
Hornsey and 105 at Coventry, to 185 at Merthyr-Tydfil and 189 at Preston; in 103 smaller towns it
was 135. The rate in England and Wales less the 179 towns, was 119 per 1,000.
In the Town sub-district the deaths under one year (449) were equivalent to 152 per 1,000
births, those in Brompton (66) to 124 per 1,000.
The infantile deaths in North Kensington, after distribution of the deaths at the Borough
Infirmary, were 386, or 155 per 1,000; the deaths in South Kensington 129, or 129 per 1,000.

Table A, Appendix II. (page 152) gives the number of deaths under one year, and the rate per
1,000 of births registered (the "infantile mortality"), for each of the thirty-two years, 1871-1902,
during my tenure of office.
The deaths of children over one year and under five years of age were 290; the total deaths
under five years, therefore, were 805 (or after-correction 790), compared with 932, 877, and 876, in
the three preceding years, being equal to 231 per 1,000 births ; the relative proportion in London,
as a whole, being 231.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age, 103, 86, and 96, in the three
preceding years respectively, were 67 in 1902, of which 63 were registered in the Town sub-district,
and 4 in Brompton. These deaths were equal to 41.6 per cent. on the 161 births registered as
illegitimate. Of the 67 children 16 only survived the first year of life.
Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards there were 956 (or, after
correction 938) deaths, as compared with 943, 868, and 800, in the three preceding years respectively.
These deaths were equivalent to 348 per 1,000 deaths at all ages. The relative proportion in all
London was 273 per 1,000.
District Rates of Mortality.—The table at page 12 shows (inter alia) the death-rate in
the sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the wards for the year, and also for each of the
thirteen four-weekly periods covered by the monthly reports. As usual the rate was far higher in
the Town sub-district (17.1 per 1,000) than in the Brompton sub-district (10.1), and the same
observation applies to the parliamentary division of North Kensington (19.0), compared with the
southern division of the borough (11.2). In each of the wards in North Kensington, viz.,
Pembridge (16.8), St. Charles (17.1), Golborne (18.1), and Norland (23.4), the death-rate exceeded
that of the borough as a whole (15.2 per 1,000). The rate in each of the wards in South
Kensington was more or less largely below the rate for the borough as a whole. In the Nottingdale
special area (estimated population 4,000) the death-rate was 45.5 per 1,000, compared with
23.4 in the Norland Ward, as a whole. The zymotic death-rate was 3.5 per 1,000 persons
living, more than double that of the borough as a whole. The deaths at all ages were 87
more than the births; the deaths of children under one year of age being in the proportion of 427
per 1,000 on the births registered. The main facts with respect to vital and mortal statistics in
this distressful area, in 1902, are summarised on the following page.