Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition of the Royal Borough of Kensington, etc., etc., for the year 1904
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TABLE X. (Table V. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.) Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years, 1894-1903, and in the year 1904.
diseases. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | Annual Average of ten years, 1894-1903. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in ten years, 1894-1903. | Deaths in 1904. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in 1904. | |
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Small-pox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 11 | ... | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | |
Measles | 108 | 33 | 173 | 33 | 120 | 24 | 98 | 77 | 93 | 34 | 79.3 | 29.0 | 67 | 26.4 | |
Scarlet Fever | 22 | 27 | 39 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 20.4 | 7.1 | 5 | 1.9 | |
Diphtheria | 75 | 89 | 72 | 82 | 26 | 42 | 27 | 38 | 20 | 24 | 49.5 | 18.1 | 17 | 6.7 | |
Whooping-cough | 61 | 39 | 99 | 19 | 52 | 59 | 33 | 62 | 21 | 90 | 53.5 | 19.6 | 19 | 7.5 | |
Typhus Fever | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 0.3 | 0.1 | ... | ... | |
Enteric Fever | 21 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 23 | 16 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 16.2 | 5.9 | 6 | 2.4 | |
Simp. Continued Fever. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.4 | |
Diarrhœa | 56 | 118 | 61 | 125 | 112 | 101 | 105 | 115 | 78 | 97 | 96.8 | 35.5 | 128 | 50.4 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington | 346 | 322 | 460 | 310 | 347 | 259 | 283 | 320 | 263 | 268 | 317.8 | 115.9 | 244 | 96.1 |
London | 11,544 | 11,544 | 14,100 | 11,525 | 12,565 | 11,228 | 10,187 | 10,203 | 10,393 | 8,166 | 11,145 | 135.5 | 9,990 | 129.6 | |
England & Wales | 52,771 | 64,901 | 66,936 | 67,051 | 69,714 | 69,820 | 64,059 | 66,531 | 53,795 | 49,150 | 62,472 | 114.4 | 65,633 | 119 |