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Kensington 1905

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905

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TABLE VII.
{Table II. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.)
Showing the Annual Birth-rate and Death-rate; Death-rate of Children; and proportion of
Deaths at Public Institutions to 1,000 Deaths, for the year 1905, and the preceding ten years.
The Year.
Birth-rate
per 1,000 of the
Population.
Death-rate
per 1,000 of the
Population.
Deaths of
Children under
one year; per
1,000 of Registered
Births.
Deaths of
Children under
one year; per
1,000 of Total
Deaths.
Deaths of
Children under
five years; per
1,000 of Total
Deaths.
Deaths at
Public Institutions;
per 1,000
of Total
Deaths.*
1905
19.3
140
144
199
302
344
1904
19.3
14.2
146
198
298
309
1903
20.0
13.8
143
208
313
314
1902
19.3
15.2
148
187
293
303
1901
20.4
15.0
161
219
331
302
1900
20.7
15.6
179
238
325
283
1899
20.8
17.5
179
213
309
311
1898
21.1
16.3
180
234
371
279
1897
21.6
15.6
165
229
342
315
1896
21.4
16.7
176
227
384
283
1895
21.4
16.2
172
227
346
277
Average of 10
years. 1895.1904.
20.6
15.6
165
218
331
298
* Includes Deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions, but excludes Deaths of Non-Parishioners at
Brompton Consumption Hospital, St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting-hill, &c
TABLE IX.
( Table IV. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.)
Showing the number of Deaths in the Borough at all ages, in 1905, from certain groups of
Diseases, and proportion to 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 deaths from all causes: also the
number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases, and proportions
to 1,000 Births, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes under one year.
Division I.
(At all Ages.)
Total Deaths.
Deaths
per 1,000 of
Population.
Deaths
per 1,000 of
Total Deaths.
1. Principal Zymotic Diseases
247
1.4
99
2. Pulmonary Diseases
537
3.0
214
3. Principal Tubercular Diseases
250
1.4
100
Division II.
(Infants under one year.)
Total Deaths.
Deaths
per 1,000 of
Births.
Deaths per 1,000
of Total Deaths
under one year.
4. Wasting Diseases
135
39.0
271
5. Convulsive Diseases
34
9.8
68
NOTES.
1. Includes Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Typhus Fever, Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever,
Simple Continued Fever, and Diarrhoea. Forty-four of the deaths occurred in Hospitals without the Borough.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, Rickets, and Tabes.
4. Includes Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, Want of Breast-milk, and Premature Birth.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, Infantile Meningitis, Convulsions, and Teething. (In Table VIII., Hydrocephalus and Infantile
Meningitis are classified with tubercular diseases, Convulsions with diseases of the nervous system, and Teething with
diseases of the digestive system.)