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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 1898

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1898

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Table: TABLE III. Deaths registered from all causes in the year 1898. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Parish, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions, etc., without the Parish.) For a Summary of this Table see page 61.

TABLE III. Deaths registered from all causes in the year 1898. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Parish, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions, etc., without the Parish.) For a Summary of this Table see page 61.

causes of death.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total All Ages.sub-district
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 585 and upwards.Kensington Town.Brompton.
CLASSES.
I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES149175147121221191917432444938762
II. PARASITIC DISEASES.............................................
III. DIETETIC DISEASES1......1451031......125205
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES47523039568896795929399578475103
V. DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES901...............31978379122818147
VI. LOCAL DISEASES251138243861901371882141503338913241070254
VII. DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE239654381016232776215
VIII. DEATHS FROM ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES949.........11...48...10311710710
655384749013719927330231728879103927982302496
I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES. Order 1.—Miasmatic Diseases
Smallpox.............................................
Measles25905........................1151201128
Scarlet Fever1165...1..................1723135
Typhus.........11.....................22...
Whooping-cough2329...........................5252493
Diphtheria2203...2226233
Simple Continued or Ill-defined Fever.............................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......151221.....................
Other Miasmatic Diseases—Influenza5.........481014131525714823

Table: 2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.

2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.

2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera31...1...4541
Diarrhoea, Dysentery7617...1...6...422931089711
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever......11...1
Ague.........1...1...1
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cow-Pox, and effects of Vaccination.....................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).........................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis12211...141614
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of the Urethra..................
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2......131...277
Pyaemia, Septicaemia........
Puerperal Fever...131......541
149175147121221191917432444938762
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases..........................................
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
.............................................
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk—Starvation1......111
Scurvy...........
Chronic Alcoholism131102118144
Delirium Tremens...141651
i ...1451031...125205
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...261213............215123
Rheumatism............1............2......321
Gout........................5.........541
Rickets52...........................777...
Cancer, Malignant Disease......11615445147253...19314251
Tabes Mesenterica64.....................101010...
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus1925112.....................4457543 32
Phthisis11626436845225......2217185
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula161763331............3349436
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis.........1.....................11...
Anemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythsemia.........2.........2............422
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus.........3112422......15114
Other Constitutional Diseases...1............1............122...
47523039568896795929399578475103
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