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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 1904
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition of the Royal Borough of Kensington, etc., etc., for the year 1904
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GENERAL DISEASES.
The Deaths from the "Principal diseases of the Zymotic Class" were 244, and 84 below the
corrected decennial average (328). These deaths, of which 225 belong to the Town sub-district
and 19 to Brompton, were equivalent to 1·37 per 1,000 persons living (1·74 in the Town sub-district
and 0·39 in Brompton) as compared with 1·51 in 1903, the decennial average being 1·84.
The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 2·15 per 1,000 (1·77 in 1903); the decennial
average being 2·48.
The subjoined table, being a summary of Table VIII. in Appendix I., page 100 (Table III. in annual reports prior to 1900), shows the number of deaths from diseases comprised in the "New List of Causes of Death," as used in the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and Wales, referred to in the following pages; to which I have added the deaths from violence, and certain diseases comprised in the old classification under the heading Ill-defined and Not Specified Causes, e.g., Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, terms which find no place in the New List.
| No. of Deaths | ||
|---|---|---|
| GENERAL DISEASES | 1,100 | |
| LOCAL DISEASES— | ||
| Diseases of Nervous System | 108 | |
| Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | 6 | |
| Diseases of Heart | 212 | |
| Diseases of Blood-vessels | 149 | |
| Diseases of Respiratory Organs | 516 | |
| Diseases of Digestive System | 184 | |
| Diseases of Lymphatic System | 2 | |
| Diseases of Urinary System | 94 | |
| Diseases of Generative System | 5 | |
| Accidents of Childbirth | 7 | |
| Diseases of Locomotive System | 4 | |
| Diseases of Integumentary System | 1 | |
| - | 1,288 | |
| DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE— | ||
| Accident or Negligence | 75 | |
| Homicide | 2 | |
| Suicide | 21 | |
| ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES | - | 98 |
| 54 | ||
| Total | 2,540 | |
With the exception of diarrhoea, the mortality from all of the above-named diseases was
below the average.
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Deaths of residents occurring in public institutions are allotted to the respective sub-districts
according to the addresses of the deceased as given by the registrars, and, in addition, are classified
under the heading Public Institutions.
The subjoined table shows the number of deaths from the several diseases occurring in the sub-districts and at outlying public institutions, etc.
| Disease. | Sub-Districts. | In Hospital. | Decennial Average. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town. | 3rompton. | Town. | Brompton. | Total Deaths. | Uncorrected. | Corrected for increase of Population. | |
| Small-pox | _ | _ | 1 | __ | 1 | 1·2 | 1·2 |
| Measles | 58 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 67 | 79·3 | 81·8 |
| Scarlet Fever | — | — | 5 | — | 5 | 20·4 | 21·0 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | — | 12 | 3 | 17 | 49·5 | 51·5 |
| Whooping-cough | 16 | 3 | — | — | 19 | 53·5 | 55·2 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | — | 0·3 | 0·3 |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | 6 | 16·2 | 16·7 |
| Simple-Continued Fever | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 0·6 | 0·6 |
| Diarrhoea | 117 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 128 | 96·8 | 99·9 |
| 195 | 14 | 30 | 5 | 244 | 3817·8 | 328·2 | |