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 C. Births, and Birth-rate; Deaths, and Death-rate; Deaths from the "Seven" Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; and Zymotic Death-rate, in Kensington, 1856-1900: Arranged in Quinquennial Periods.
Quinquennial Period. | Births. | Birth-Rate. | Deaths. | Death-Rate. | Deaths from Zymotic Diseases. | Zymotic Death-rate, per 1,000 persons living. | |||||||||
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Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Total. | ||||||||
Typhus | Enteric | Pyrexia | |||||||||||||
1856-1860 | 9,557 | 30.7 | 6,540 | 21.0 | 44 | 140 | 234 | No information. | 187 | Not separately classified. | 112 | Not separately classified. | 282 | 999 | 3.20 |
1861-1865 | 11,562 | 28.5 | 8,261 | 20.4 | 74 | 318 | 377 | 206 | 276 | 311 | 1,562 | 3.85 | |||
1866-1870 | 17,090 | 32.1 | 10,853 | 20.4 | 57 | 240 | 537 | 256 | 219 | 565 | 1,874 | 3.52 | |||
1871-1875 | 20,861 | 31.4 | 12,595 | 18.9 | 189 | 289 | 249 | 85 | 345 | 27 | 130 | 55 | 603 | 1,972 | 2.97 |
1876-1880 | 23,149 | 29.9 | 14,517 | 18.8 | 151 | 370 | 323 | 95 | 531 | 13 | 105 | 28 | 605 | 2,221 | 2.87 |
1881-1885 | 21,383 | 26.1 | 13,438 | 16.4 | 107 | 326 | 153 | 96 | 427 | 5 | 115 | 18 | 438 | 1,685 | 2.05 |
1886-1890 | 19,428 | 23.5 | 13,816 | 16.7 | 1 | 442 | 135 | 305 | 387 | ... | 77 | 4 | 421 | 1,772 | 2.14 |
1891-1895 | 18,512 | 22.1 | 14,235 | 16.9 | 9* | 297 | 152 | 306 | 312 | ... | 92 | 7 | 440 | 1,615 | 1.92 |
1896-1900 | 18,209 | 21.2 | 14,075 | 16.4 | ... | 448 | 105 | 249 | 262 | 2 | 87 | 2 | 504 | 1,659 | 1.93 |
Note.—The Medical Officer of Health is not responsible for the accuracy of the figures above the horizontal line between
1866-1870 and 1871-1875, excepting as to calculation of rates.
* All in 1893.
TABLE D. Death-rate in Kensington, per 1,000 persons living, from each of the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; Arranged also, in two groups; viz. (1) The four notifiable infectious diseases—Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and "Fever"; and (2) The three non-notifiable diseases—Measles, Whooping-Cough, and Diarrhœa.
Quinquennial Period. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Death-rate per 1,000 from— | ||
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Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough | "Fever." | Diarrhœa. | The Seven Diseases. | The Four Notifiable Infections Diseases. (Columns 1, 3, 4 and 6). | The Three Non-notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 2, 5 and 7). | |
1856-1860 | 0.13 | 0.45 | 0.75 | No information. | 0.60 | 0.36 | 0.91 | 3.20 | 1.25 | 1.95 |
1861-1865 | 0.18 | 0.78 | 0.93 | 0.51 | 0.68 | 0.77 | 3.85 | 1.79 | 2.06 | |
1866-1870 | 0.11 | 0.45 | 1.01 | 0.48 | 0.41 | 1.06 | 3.52 | 1.53 | 1.99 | |
1871-1875 | 0.28 | 0.44 | 0.37 | 0.13 | 0.52 | 0.32 | 0.91 | 2.97 | 1.11 | 1.86 |
1876-1880 | 0.19 | 0.48 | 0.42 | 0.12 | 0.69 | 0.19 | 0.78 | 2.87 | 0.92 | 1.95 |
1881-1885 | 0.13 | 0.39 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.52 | 0.17 | 0.53 | 2.05 | 0.60 | 1.45 |
1886-1890 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 0.16 | 0.37 | 0.47 | 0.10 | 0.51 | 2.14 | 0.63 | 1.51 |
1891-1895 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 0.18 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.12 | 0.52 | 1.92 | 0.67 | 1.25 |
1896-1900 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.12 | 0.29 | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.59 | 1.98 | 0.52 | 1.41 |
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