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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: Statistics of Scarlet Fever in Kensington in 1905, and in thePreceding Ten Years.

Statistics of Scarlet Fever in Kensington in 1905, and in thePreceding Ten Years.

The Year.No. of Recorded Cases.Total Number ofRecorded CasesPercen-tage of Removals to total Recorded Cases.Deaths.Total Deaths.Percentage of Deaths.Percen-tage of Deaths toRecorded Cases.Deathsin London from Scarlet Fever.
Treated at Home.Removed toHospital.AtHome.InHospitals.At Home.InHospitals.
19053130133291-2121—1006·3549
19043722526286-55-1001·9365
190353277330842121414864·2362
190261311372842192110905·6563
190192383475814111527733·2584
19007429036479—44—1001·4361
189910134444577281020802·2398
189811736147876122233·495·64·8583
1897188561749753262910·389·73·9780
18962487631011757323918823·9942
18951673585256812152744565·1829

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DIPHTHERIA.
The cases notified as diphtheria (including membranous croup, classified by the RegistrarGeneral
as diphtheria) were 125; compared with 184, 160, and 186, in the preceding three years;
58 in North Kensington, and 67 in South Kensington. The deaths were 9 (a case-mortality of
7.2 per cent.), and 36 below the corrected decennial average (45); 6 in the Town sub-district, and 3 in
Brompton. Four of the deaths took place in hospitals, to which 100 cases were removed—a
case-mortality of 4.0 per cent. Seven of the deaths were of children under five years of age.
The mortality rate was 0 05 per 1,000 of the population.
Detailed information in regard to diphtheria mortality in the borough—1856-1905—is set
out in Appendix II., Tables B, C, and D pp. 130 and 131.
The deaths in London, as a whole, were 553, and considerably less than a third of the
corrected decennial average number (1,719), compared with 1,181, 752, and 729, in the three preceding
years. The mortality rate was 012 per 1,000 of the population.
The notifications were 6,489 in number, compared with 10,735, 7,727, and 7,224, in the three
preceding years. The cases admitted to hospital were 4,180, compared with 8,086, 5,113, and
4,739, in the preceding three years; and the deaths in hospital 348, a case-mortality of 8.3 per cent.
At the close of the year there were 701 cases under treatment in the hospitals, compared
with 927, 739, and 807, at the corresponding period in the preceding three years.