London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1897
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1897
This page requires JavaScript
21
DEATH-RATES IN ENGLAND AND WALES; AND
IN LONDON; AND IN OTHER LARGE TOWNS.
Before entering upon details with respect to the causes of
death in Kensington, I may mention, by way of comparison
with our local mortality-rates, that the death-rate in England
and Wales, in 1897, was 17.4 per 1,000, and was lower than
the rate in any previous year, excepting 1894 and 1896. As
compared with the rate in the ten years 1887-96, the deathrate
in 1897 shows a decrease of 1.2 per 1,000. The rate in
London, as already stated, was 18.2 per 1,000, being 1.7 below
the decennial average (19.9).
The subjoined table shows the annual death-rate per 1,000 persons living, in each of the last eleven years, in Kensington, in London, and in England and Wales:—
| 1897. | 1896. | 1895. | 1894. | 1893. | 1892. | 1891. | 1890. | 1889. | 1888. | 1887. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.4 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 17.2 | 18.4 | 17.8 | 14.6 | 17.1 | 17.4 |
| London | 18.2 | 18.6 | 19.8 | 17.8 | 21.3 | 20.6 | 21.4 | 21 .4 | 18.4 | 19.3 | 20.3 |
| W. Districts | 16.1 | 17.6 | 18.5 | 17.1 | 19.7 | 29.0 | 20.8 | 20.5 | 18.1 | 19.3 | 19.9 |
| North „ | 16.6 | 17.1 | 18.2 | 16.3 | 20.2 | 19.4 | 20.0 | 19.6 | 16.9 | 17.7 | 18.9 |
| Central „ | 21.8 | 21.2 | 23.8 | 20.0 | 25.7 | 23.9 | 26.5 | 24.8 | 20.9 | 22.7 | 23.5 |
| East „ | 21.2 | 21.3 | 23.4 | 20.8 | 24.9 | 23.5 | 24.0 | 25.1 | 21.2 | 22.7 | 23.3 |
| South „ | 17.2 | 17.5 | 18.3 | 16.2 | 19.5 | 19.0 | 19.8 | 19.6 | 17.7 | 18.1 | 19.4 |
| England and Wales | 17.4 | 17.1 | 18.7 | 16.6 | 19.2 | 19.0 | 20.2 | 19.5 | 18.2 | 18.1 | 19.1 |
Greater London.—The death-rate in "Greater London,"
which is co-extensive with the Metropolitan and City Police
Districts, the population, in the middle of the year 1897,
numbering 6,291,677 (viz., 4,463,169 in Inner or Registration
London, and 1,828,508 in the Outer Ring), was 16.7 per 1,000,
as compared with 16.4, 18.3, and 17.0 in the three preceding
years respectively. The deaths properly belonging to the
Outer Ring, as distinguished from Inner or Registration
London, were equivalent to a rate of only 13.2; the rate in
the Inner Ring having been 18.2. The death-rate from the
principal diseases of the zymotic class in Inner London, was
2.58 per 1,000; in the Outer Ring 2.13; the rate in Greater
London, as a whole, being 2.46 per 1,000.