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"(1) That in no case should a death be registered without production of a certificate of the
cause of death, signed by a registered medical practitioner, or by a coroner after inquest.
"(2) That in each sanitary district a registered medical practitioner should be appointed as
public medical certifier of the cause of death in cases in which a certificate from a medical
practitioner in attendance is not forthcoming."
No action has been taken, so far, to give effect to the recommendations.
INQUESTS.
Two hundred and seventeen inquests were held on parishioners, including 48 at places without
the borough, mostly at public institutions to which the deceased persons had been removed
for treatment. The cause of death is stated to have been ascertained by post mortem examination
in 133 cases. Forty-five inquests were held on the bodies of non-parishioners who had died
in Kensington. All of the inquests in the borough were held at the coroner's court at the Town
Hall.
The causes of death may be classified as follows:—
Deaths caused by disease 117
Deaths caused by violence (100), viz.:—
Accidental 78
Suicidal 22
100
Total 217
Of the 22 suicidal deaths, 8 belong to the Brompton sub-district and 14 to the Town subdistrict.
The inquests on Kensington parishioners were in the proportion of 8.7 per cent. on total
deaths, the rate in the Metropolis being 9.9 per cent.; in England and Wales the rate was 6.8 per
cent. The relative percentages in 1904 were 8.010, 9.6 and 6.5, respectively.
The deaths from violence (100) were equal to 0.56 per 1,000 of the population in Kensington;
the corresponding rates were 0.65 per 1,000 in London, as a whole, and 0.57 per 1,000 in England
and Wales.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The tables at pp. 34-38 show (1) the number of notifications of all the scheduled diseases in
London in the 16 years, 1890-1905; (2) the ages at notification in 1905, (3) the cases notified in the
several Metropolitan boroughs, (4) the relative prevalence of the several diseases at different periods
of the year in Kensington and in London, (5) the notifications in Kensington, and in the several
divisions thereof, in 1905, and (6) the notifications, gross and proportional numbers, and percentages
of removals to hospital in Kensington in the years 1895-1905 inclusive.
The Kensington notifications in 1905, 669—487 in the Town sub-district, and 182 in
Brrompton, were the lowest number on record save in the preceding year, when they were 651,
exclusive of 271 of chicken-pox, a disease not notifiable in 1905. The notifications in the ten
years and other particulars are set out in the table, at page 38.
Table XII. (Appendix 1, page 112) shows the streets, etc., where cases of the scheduled
diseases occured; Table XIII. (page 121) the streets with which deaths from these causes were
connected.
The cases notified in London were 32,880.