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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 X.
{Table V. in Annual Reports prior to 1900.)
Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years, 1895-1904, and in the year 1905.
DISEASES.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
Annual
Average of
ten years,
1895-1904.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1000
Deaths
from all
causes in
ten years,
1895 1904.
Deaths in
1905.
Proportion
of
Deaths
lo 1000
Deaths
from all
causes in
1905.
Small-pox
...
..
...
...
...
...
1
11
...
1
1.3
0.5
...
...
Measles
33
173
33
120
24
98
77
93
34
67
75.2
27.6
54
21.5
Scarlet Fever
27
39
29
23
10
4
15
21
14
5
18.7
6.9
21
8.4
Diphtheria
89
72
82
26
42
27
38
20
24
17
43.7
16.1
9
3.6
Whooping-cough
39
99
19
52
59
33
62
21
90
19
49.3
18.1
60
23.9
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
2
...
...
1
...
0.3
0.1
...
...
Enteric Fever
15
15
21
12
23
16
11
19
9
6
14.7
5.4
13
5.2
Simp. Continued Fever
1
I
1
...
...
...
...
1
0.4
0.1
...
...
Diarrhoea
118
61
125
112
101
105
115
78
97
128
104.0
38.2
90
35.9
TOTALS.
Kensington
322
460
310
347
259
283
320
263
268
244
307.6
113.0
247
98.5
London
11,544
14,100
11,525
12,565
11,228
10,187
10,203
10,393
8,166
9,990
10,990
133.7
7,891
108.1
England & Wales
64,901
66,936
67,051
69,714
69,820
64,059
66,531
53,795
49,150
65,633
63,759
115.7
51,580
99.2