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Table A, Appendix II. (page 129) 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-five years, 1871-1905, during my tenure of office.
The deaths of children over one year and under five years of age were 259 ; the deaths under
five years, therefore, were 757, compared with 790, 768 and 756 in the preceding three years, being
equal to 219 per 1,000 deaths ; the relative proportion in London, as a whole, being 196.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age, 67, 79 and 63, in the preceding
three years respectively, were 94 in 1905, of which 84 were registered in the Town sub-district,
and 10 in Brompton. These deaths were equal to 59.9 per cent. on the 157 births registered as
illegitimate. Of the 94 children 25 only survived the first year of life.
Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards,.there were 873 deaths, as compared
with 956, 803 and 883 in the preceding three years respectively. These deaths were equivalent to
348 per 1,000 deaths at all ages. The relative proportion in all London was 291 per 1,000.
District Rates of Mortality.—The table at page 13 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 (15.2 per 1,000) than in the Brompton sub-district (10.9), and the same
observation applies to the parliamentary division of North Kensington (17.0), compared with the
southern division of the borough (10.9). In three of the wards in North Kensington, viz.,
St. Charles (16.5), Golborne, (17.8) and Norland (20.0), the death-rate exceeded that of the borough
as a whole (14.0 per 1,000). The rate in Pembridge Ward (12.7) 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 32.0 per
1,000, compared with 20 0 in the ward as a whole. The zymotic death-rate was 3'7 per 1,000 persons
living, and more than double that of the borough as a whole (1.38). The deaths at all ages
were 9 more than the births; the deaths of children under one year of age being in the proportion
of 345 per 1,000 registered births. The main facts with respect to vital and mortal statistics of
this distressful area, in 1905, which generally are of a more favourable character than in any
one of the preceding eight years, are summarised below.

Causes of Death.—In 9 cases Diarrhea; in 3 cases Whooping Cough; in 2 cases Measles, and
in 1 case Enteric Fever. There was no death from scarlet fever or diphtheria. The general deathrate
was the lowest on record.