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District Zymotic Rate.—The deaths from these diseases in North Kensington were 196
and the rate 2T2 per 1,000 persons living. In South Kensington the deaths were 51, and the rate
0*59 per 1,000. The rate in the several wards was as follows:—
North Kensington—
St. Charles 56 deaths, = 2.5
Golborne 72 deaths, = 2.7
Norland 49 deaths, = 2.1
Pembridge 19 deaths, = 1.0
South Kensington— per 1,000 persons living.
Holland 15 deaths, = 0.7
Earl's Court 8 deaths, = 0.4
Queen's Gate 11 deaths, = 0.7
Redcliffe 11 deaths, = 0.6
Brompton 6 deaths, = 0.4
The table at page 15 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases, as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given in Tables B, C and D, pages 130 and 131,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the fifty years, 1856-1905;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each disease and the death-rate therefrom; in
Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennial periods; in Table D, the rate per 1,000 of
the population, in quinquennial periods, of the four notifiable diseases (small-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and "fever"), and the three non-notifiable diseases—measles, whooping-cough and
diarrhoea.
In England and Wales the deaths from these diseases were at the rate of 1.52 per 1,000
persons living, against 1.64, 1.46 and 1.94, respectively, in the preceding three years. In the
seventy-six great towns, including London, the average rate was 1.88.