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The inquests on Kensington parishioners were in the
proportion of 7'3 per cent, on total deaths, the rate in the
Metropolis being 9-0 per cent. In England and Wales the
rate was 6-3 per cent. The relative per-centages in 1897 were
8'4, 9*3, and 6*3, respectively.
The registered deaths from violence were equal to 2*8 per
cent, on total deaths in Kensington, the proportion in the
Metropolis being 4-2 per cent.; and in England and Wales
36 per cent. These deaths were equal to 043 per 1,000
persons living in Kensington, 0'78 per 1,000 in London, as a
whole, and 0"61 per 1,000 in England and W ales.
VACCINATION.
Table X. (appendix) is a return respecting vaccination in
Kensington in 1897 (the return for 1898 is not yet due),
compiled by Mr. Shattock, the Vaccination Officer, whose
able discharge of duties, not easy of performance in these
days, deserves recognition. It appears that of 3,694 infants
whose births were returned in " Birth List Sheets" (col. 2)
during the year, 2,859 were successfully vaccinated, and 13
were returned as "insusceptible of vaccination." In 87 cases
vaccination was postponed by medical certificate : 335 infants
died before attaining the age for vaccination ; whilst some 390
cases, from " removal to places out of the parish unknown, or
which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found," are
unaccounted for. These cases are, with those of "conscientious
objectors," equivalent to a " loss" of 10 7 per cent.,
as compared with the number of births registered, the
losses in the preceding eleven years having been 5*4, 5"9,
6*0, 6 5, 6'7, 8'0, 8*7, 7'7, 84, 90, and 101 per cent, respectively.
These figures clearly indicate that the proportion
of unvaccinated persons in this parish is on the
increase. Of the 2,859 successful vaccinations in Kensington,
in 1897, 1,731 (60' 5 per cent.) were performed at the public