Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905
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Year. 1 | Population estimated to Middle of each Year.2 | Births. | Deaths under One Year of Age. | Deaths at all Ages. Total. | Deathsin Public Institu-tions.9 | Deaths ofNon-residents registered inDistrict. 10 | Deaths of Residents registered beyond District.11 | Deaths at all Ages. Nett. | ||||
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Number.s | Rate.* 4 | Number. 5 | Rate per 1,000 Births registered 6 | Number. 7 | Rate.* 8 | Number. 12 | Rate.* 13 | |||||
* Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Note.—The deaths included in columns 7 and 9 of this Table are all those registered during
the year within the Borough. The Deaths included in column 12 are the number in column 7,
corrected by the subtraction of the number in column 10, and the addition of the number in
column 11. The term " non-residents " in column 10, means persons brought into the Borough on
account of illness and dying there. The term " residents " in column 11, means persons taken out
of the Borough on account of illness and dying thereout.
Area of Borough in acres 2,291 Total population at all ages 179,000
No. (approximate) of inhabited houses 23,000
Average number of persons per house 7.8
INSTITUTIONS WITHIN KENSINGTON RECEIVING SICK AND INFIRM
PERSONS FROM OUTSIDE THE BOROUGH.
1. St. Marylebone Infirmary, North Kensington.
2. The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.
3. St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill.
4. St. Luke's House, Pembridge Square.
5. Queen's Jubilee Hospital, Richmond Road, South Kensington.
For Institutions outside Kensington at which Sick, Insane and Infirm Persons from the
Borough died, see page 32.