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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 C. Births, and Birth-rate; Deaths, and Death-rate; Deaths from the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; and Zymotic Death-rate, in Kensington, 1856-1905: Arranged in Quinquennial Periods.

Quinquen-nial Period.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths.Death-rate.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.Zymotic Death-rate. per1,000 persons living.
Small-poxMeasles.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaWhooping-Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Pyrexia.Diarrhœa.Total.
1856-18609,55730.76,54021.044158276—206Not separately classified.142Not se parately classifitd.2781,0993.53
1861-186511,56228.58,26120.476325371982062753091,6604.09
1866-187017,09032.110,85320.455258518803022245742,0113.78
1871-187520,86131.412,59518.91892892498534527130556031,9722.97
1876-188023,14929.914,51718.81513703239553113105286052,2212.87
1881-188521,38326.113,43816.4107326153964275115184381,6852.05
1886-189019,42823.513,81616.71442135305387...7744211,7722.14
1891-189518,51222.114,23516.99*297152306312...9274401,6151.92
1896-190018,20921.214,07516.4...44810524926228725041,6591.93
1901-190517,56119.712,89814.4133257610825215815081,3421.51
•All in 1893.

TABLE D. Death-rate in Kensington, per 1,000 persons living, from each of the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; Arranged also, in two groups; viz. (1) The four notifiable infectious diseases—Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and "Fever"; and (2) The three non-notifiable diseases—Measles, Whooping-Cough, and Diarrhœa.

Quinquennial Period.1234567Death-rate per 1,000 from—
Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diph-theria.Whooping Cough."Fever."Diarrhœa.The Seven Diseases.The Four Notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 1, 3, 4, and 6.)The three Non-notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 2, 5, and 7.)
1856-18600.140.490.89—0.660.460.893.531.482.05
1861-18650.190.800.910.240.510.680.764.092.022.07
1866-18700.100.490.970.150.570.421.083.781.652.13
1871-18750.280.440.370.130.520.320.912.971.111.86
1876-18800.190.480.420.120.690.190.782.870.921.95
1881-18850.130.390.190.120.520.170.532.050.601.45
1886-18900.000.530.160.370.470.100.512.140.631.51
1891-18950.020.350.180.360.370.120.521.920.671.25
1896-19000.000.520.120.290.310.110.591.930.521.41
1901-19050.010.370.090.120.280.070.571.510.291.22

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