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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 Kensington notifications were 922; viz., 746 in the Town sub-district, and 176 in
Brompton. The notifications in the ten preceding years were 972, 1,289, 1,781, 1,457, 1,004, 1,046,
986, 1,025, 1,608, and 738 respectively. The notifications included 271 of chicken-pox (669 in 1903),
a disease only temporarily made notifiable. Omitting these cases the notifications were 651, the
lowest number on record.
Table XII. (Appendix I., p. 112) shows the streets, etc., where cases of the scheduled diseases
occurred.
The cases notified in London were 39,251, including 10,940 from chicken-pox.
The notifications of scarlet fever were 13,435, of diphtheria 7,079, of enteric fever 1,902 (the
smallest number on record), of erysipelas 4,952, and of croup 145 (the lowest on record). The
notifications of puerperal fever (274) were the lowest yet recorded save in the three years 1890 (206),
1891 (221), and 1903 (231).

Table: Notification has been in force since October, 1889. The notifications of each of the diseases during the fifteen years 1890-1904 are set out in the subjoined table.

Notification has been in force since October, 1889. The notifications of each of the diseases during the fifteen years 1890-1904 are set out in the subjoined table.

Year.Small-pox.Chicken-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Other Continued Fevers.Puerperal FeverErysipelas.Croup.Cholera.Relapsing Fever-Total.
189060...15,3305,8702,877352372064,59855025729,795
1891114...11,8985,9073,372271522214,764505233926,522
1892423...27,0967,7912,465201473476,93456554745,849
18982,813...36,90113,0263,663222053979,70066886467,485
18941,192...18,44010,6553,360211622536,08053521240,721
1895978...19,75710,77233506141052365,66045129841,511
1896225...25,63813,3613,18961022786,43844613349,699
1897105...22,87612,8113,1134652645,80138838145,466
189835...16,91711,5613,03217552505,18031023—37,380
189929...18,11213,3634,46014. 693295,61533815—42,344
190087...13,81211,7884,3097732374,7762105—35,304
19011,702...18,38711,9673,19320482504,6041873—40,361
19027,79425,70818,24610,5423,4054483135,5371921—71,790
1903417...12,5367,5712,33722402314,376156——27,686
190449210,94013,4357,0791,9023282744,9521451—39,251

Table: The Ages at Notification of certain of the diseases, in 1904 were as follows:—

The Ages at Notification of certain of the diseases, in 1904 were as follows:—

Age.Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.
0—1 year151651934175—
1—5294,3452,86877209—
5—585,6522,316237221—
10—371,780747294220—
15—6158232125729110
20—6543928128631268
25—116376299401688144
35—617913420587050
45—271939968791
55—1521328596—
65 and upwards5— .811482—
48913,4397,2191,8964,943273