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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Tables illustrative of the Lady Inspectors' work amongst consumptives in the four years,
are subjoined. Attention may be drawn to the table (at p. 54); which bears eloquent testimony
to the fact that consumption is a disease of the poor. Of the 355 cases investigated in 1905,
only twelve were of persons in a more or less well-to-do position—all of them died—the remainder
belonging to classes of the population able to contribute, the great bulk of them obviously
nothing, and the rest but little, if anything, towards the cost of sanatorium treatment.
| Number of Cases notified. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | Total. | ||
| The Bobough | 247 | 221 | 203 | 218 | 889 | |
| Sub-Districts— | ||||||
| Kensington Town | 288 | 206 | 190 | 210 | 844 | |
| Brompion | 9 | 15 | 18 | 8 | 45 | |
| Parliamentary Divisions— | ||||||
| North Kensington | 218 | 182 | 169 | 197 | 766 | |
| South Kensington | 29 | 89 | 84 | 21 | 123 | |
| Wards— | ||||||
| North K. | St. Charles | 25 | 19 | 25 | 85 | 104 |
| Golborne | 47 | 46 | 87 | 57 | 187 | |
| Norland | 117 | 100 | 95 | 89 | 401 | |
| Pembridge | 29 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 74 | |
| South K. | Holland | 12 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 47 |
| Earl's Court | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 18 | |
| Queen's Gate | 4 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 26 | |
| Kedcliffe | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | |
| Brompton | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | |
Voluntary Notification of Consumption in Kensington in the four years 1902-3-4-5
| The Year. | AGE AT NOTIFICATION. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-5. | 5-10. | 10-20. | 20 40. | 40-60 | 60 and upwards. | Total. | |
| 1902 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 117 | 109 | 10 | 247 |
| 1903 | — | 1 | 8 | 81 | 111 | 20 | 221 |
| 1904 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 72 | 96 | 19 | 203 |
| 1905 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 96 | 77 | 82 | 218 |
| Totals | 5 | 8 | 36 | 366 | 393 | 81 | 889 |
| 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Borough | 226 | 219 | 235 | 199 | 879 | |
| Sub-Districts— | ||||||
| Kensington Town | 176 | 197 | 208 | 166 | 747 | |
| Brompton | 50 | 22 | 27 | 33 | 132 | |
| Parliamentary Divisions— | ||||||
| North Kensington | 160 | 151 | 164 | 139 | 614 | |
| South Kensington | 66 | 68 | 71 | 60 | 265 | |
| Wards— | ||||||
| North K. | 19 | 26 | 38 | 32 | 115 | |
| Golborne | 53 | 41 | 42 | 37 | 173 | |
| Norland | 66 | 66 | 62 | 54 | 248 | |
| Pembridge | 22 | 18 | 22 | 16 | 78 | |
| South K. | Holland | 12 | 27 | 28 | 21 | 88 |
| Earl's Court | 14 | 5 | 19 | 10 | 48 | |
| Queen's Gate | 12 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 37 | |
| R°edcliffe | 18 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 54 | |
| Brompton | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 38 | |