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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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1. Accident or Negligence.—Total deaths, 68 including
13 in Brompton, and 32 under five years of age ; viz.,
from Fractures and Contusions, 39 ; Burn, Scald, 4 ; Poison, 1;
Drowning, 2; Suffocation, mostly of infants overlaid, 22.
Twenty of these "accidents" occurred to children of less
than one year old. Twenty of the deaths from suffocation
were registered in the Town sub-district.
3. SUICIDE.—Total deaths, 9; including 2 in Brompton,
viz., Gun-shot Wounds, 3; Poison, 4; Drowning, 1 ; Hanging, 1
Class VIII.—Deaths from Ill-Defined and not
Specified Causes.
This Class includes the causes of 117 deaths, 103 under
five years of age, and 94 under one year; 107 and 10 in the
Town and Brompton sub-districts respectively. The causes
named are: Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, 95 deaths (all under
five years of age, and 86 under one year); Mortification, 11 ;
Tumour,1; Abscess, 5 ; and Hcemorrhage, 4. To Causes not
Specified or Ill-defined, 1 death was ascribed.