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In the Town sub-district the deaths under one year (451) were equivalent to 154 per 1,000
births, those in Brompton (52) to 101 per 1,000.
The infantile deaths in North Kensington, after distribution of the deaths at the Borough
Infirmary, were 406, or 163 per 1,000; the deaths in South Kensington 97, or 101 per 1,000.

The infantile mortality rate in the Metropolis, usually below that of Kensington, was also 146,
as compared with an average proportion of 154 per 1,000 in the ten preceding years.
The lowest rates in the Metropolitan Boroughs were: St. Marylebone 94, City of London 104,
Holborn 109, Hampstead 113 and Stoke Newington 114; the highest, Poplar 154, Stepney 155,
Chelsea 156, Bethnal Green 157, Bermondsey 172, Southwark 174 and Shoreditch 188.
In England and Wales the rate was 146, and 9 per 1,000 below the mean proportion in the
ten years 1894-1903.
In the 76 great towns of England and Wales (including London) the rate averaged 160,
ranging from 87 at Hornsey, 100 at King's Norton, and 108 at Hastings, to 203 at Stockport,
212 at Hanley, and 229 at Burnley. The rate in Rural England was 125 per 1,000.
Table A, Appendix II. (page 117) gives the number of deaths under one year in Kensington,
and the proportion to 1,000 registered births (the "infantile mortality rate"), for each of the
thirty-four years, 1871-1904, during my tenure of office.
The deaths of children over one year and under five years of age were 253; the deaths under
five years therefore, were 756, compared with 876, 790 and 768, in the three preceding years, being
equal to 219 per 1,000 births; the relative proportion in London, as a whole, being 215.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age, 96, 67 and 79, in the three
preceding years respectively, were 63 in 1904, of which 52 were registered in the Town sub-district,
and 11 in Brompton. These deaths were equal to 40.4 per cent. on the 156 births registered as
illegitimate. Of the 63 children 17 only survived the first year of life.
Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards there were 883 deaths, as compared
with 800, 956 and 803, 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 281 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 (15·8 per 1,000) than in the Brompton sub-district (10·1), and the same
observation applies to the parliamentary division of North Kensington (17·7), compared with the
southern division of the borough (10·5). In three of the wards in North Kensington, viz.,
St. Charles (16·8), Golborne (17·5) and Norland (21·9), the death-rate exceeded that of the borough
as a whole (14-2 per 1,000). The rate in Pembridge Ward (13·8) and in each of the wards in South
Kensington was more or less largely below the rate for the borough as a whole. In the Notting-dale
"special area" (estimated population 4,000) comprised in Norland Ward, the death-rate was 36·2
per 1,000, compared with 21·9 in the ward as a whole. The zymotic death-rate was 3·2 per 1,000
persons living, more than double that of the borough as a whole (1·37). The deaths at all ages
were 32 more than the births; the deaths of children under one year of age being in the proportion
of 274 per 1,000 registered births. The main facts with respect to vital and mortal statistics of
this distressful area, in 1904, which are of a more favourable character than in any one of the
eight preceding years, are summarised below.