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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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The following table gives particulars with respect to diphtheria in North and South Kensington respectively.
| Set out in Report for Four weeks ended. | Total Cases Recorded. | Cases Recorded in North Kensington.* | Cases Recorded in South Kensington.* | Cases removed to Hospital from. | Deaths (15 in Hospitals). | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Kensington. | South Kensington. | North Kensington. | South Kensington. | ||||
| January 30 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| February 27 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 1 | ... |
| March 26 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ... |
| April 23 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| May 21 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | ... |
| June 18 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 5 | ... | ... |
| July 16 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | ... | 1 |
| August 13 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | l |
| September 10 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | ... |
| October 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | ... |
| November 5 | 23 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 15 | ... | 1 |
| December 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | ... | 2 |
| 31 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | ... | ... |
| 189 | 99 | 90 | 87 | 71 | 9 | 8 | |
*North Kensington and South Kensington are the districts to the north and the south of the centre of Notting-hill
High-street, and Holland-park-avenue, respectively.
WHOOPING-COUGH.
Whooping-Cough was the cause of 19 deaths compared with 62, 21, and 90, in the three
preceding years; 16 in the Town sub-district, and 3 in Brompton; the corrected decennial average
being 55. All of the deaths were of children under five years of age, including 7 under one year.
The rate of mortality was 0.11 per 1,000 of the population.
The deaths in London, as a whole, were 1,507, and 492 below the corrected decennial average
(1,999). The rate of mortality was 0•33 per 1,000 of the population.
FEVER.
The notified cases of Enteric Fever were forty-six in number, compared with 97, 80, and 61,
in the three preceding years. The deaths were 6 (11 below the corrected decennial average and
the smallest annual number on record); 5 of them belong to the Town sub-district. Three of the
deaths took place in hospitals, to which 29 cases were removed. The deaths from this cause in the
three preceding years were 11, 19, and 9, respectively. In a few of the cases there was ground for
suspicion that the illness had been caused by the eating of shell-fish—oysters in seven instances.
The deaths in London, as a whole, were 296 (the smallest number on record), and 336 below
the corrected decennial average (663). The notifications were 1,902 (2,237 in 1903): the admissions
to hospitals 750 (compared with 1,480, 1,806, and 967, in the three preceding years). At the close of
the year there remained 159 cases under treatment, against 195, 210, and 246, at the corresponding
period of the three preceding years. The rate of mortality was 0•07 per 1,000 of the population.
No cases of Typhus Fever was notified in the Borough; and 3 cases only in London, as a
whole, there being no death from this cause.
One death occurred in the Borough from simple continued fever (Pyrexia); three cases
were notified. The deaths and notifications in London, as a whole from this cause, were 6 and 28
respectively.