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The mortality in North Kensington was very much greater than in South Kensington, the
difference being mainly due to the prevalence of poverty in the former area. It should further be
borne in mind that the high death-rates for Golborne and Norland in the North represent
averages based on the combined experience of the good and bad areas which the figures
embrace ; and for this reason the Ward rates which are in themselves excessive can only be accepted
as indicating the incidence of a very much heavier mortality on those streets and neighbourhoods
where the inhabitants live in a state of social degradation.

The diseases described in the above list as the "principal zymotic diseases," are small-pox,
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, enteric fever (including fever not otherwise
defined) diarrhoea and enteritis.
The number of deaths and the death-rates from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases in
Kensington together with the zymotic death-rates for London and Kensington will be found in
Tables VI. and VII. Appendix, p. 54, arranged in quinquennial periods since 1881.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths among infants under the age of one year numbered 365, the infantile mortality
rate being equivalent to 119 deaths per 1,000 births. The following Table shows a'decline in the
infantile death-rate from 172 in the quinquennium 1896-1900 to 110 in the years 1911-1915, and a
decrease in the rate of 37 per cent, in North Kensington as compared with a.decrease of 43 per
cent, in South Kensington.
Deaths under one year per 1,000 Births.
Period.
London.
Kensington.
The Borough.
North.
South.
1896-1900
197
131
172
162
1901-1905
114
139
162
144
1906-1910
135
84
114
120
1911-1915
75
110
108
125