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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

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: TABLE III. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1905.

TABLE III. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1905.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Kensington.Total Cases Notified in each Sub-District.Number of Casesremoved to Hospital from each Sub-District.
At all Ages.At Ages—YearsKensington Town.Brompton.Kensington Town.Brompton.
Under 11 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards
Small-Pox.................................
Chicken-Pox.................................
Cholera.................................
Diphtheria124338502112...85397030
Membranous croup1...1............1.........
Erysipelas15764912101251362131
Scarlet fever3321951852724...220112201100
Typhus fever.................................
Enteric fever49......131026...418346
Relapsing fever.................................
Continued fever2...1......1...1111
Puerperal fever4............4...311...
Plague.................................
Totals669101392577016825487182310138

Table: Table showing the Notifications, in 1905, in the Borough, the Sub-Districts, the Parliamentary Divisions, and the Wards.

Table showing the Notifications, in 1905, in the Borough, the Sub-Districts, the Parliamentary Divisions, and the Wards.

Area.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Continued FeverPuerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Croup.Totals.Population.Notifications per 1,000 of the population.
The Borough33212449241571669179,0003.7
Sub-Districts—
Kensington Town2208541131361487129,7403.8
Brompton1123981121...18249,2603.7
Parliamentary Divisions—
North Kensington1865729...3107138392,2904.1
South Kensington14667202150...28686,7103.3
Wards—
North K.St. Charles56203......24...10322,2404.6
Golborne78228...143115326,6705.7
Norland3798...222...7823,7903.3
Pembridge15610......18...4919,5902.5
South K.Holland1619111...13...6020,6802.9
Earl's Court4211.........10...6318,2903.4
Queen's Gate12111......13...3714,4602.6
Redcliffe51165...110...8318.9404.4
Brompton251031...4...4314,3403.0