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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 1897

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1897

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Table: (B) Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health, during the year 1897, in the parish of Kensington, in the Metropolitan District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

(B) Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health, during the year 1897, in the parish of Kensington, in the Metropolitan District; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics : Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Last Census.Esti* mated to middle of 1897.12345678910111234567891011
Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fever.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fever.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Kensington Town SubDistrict1197131208062997Under 5...184938...3............14...141703...3...............
5 upwds....4041582...784...11...135...2851131...48............1
Brompton Sub-District4810948248550Under 5...3019.....................2...2515.....................1
5 upwds....11852......311...3...29...9735......15...............
Kensington Infirmary and Workhouse16481648136Under 5...5........................1...5...........................
5 upwds....8.........5......2155...8........................2
St. Marylebone Infirmary803803...Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds...............................1.................................
Brompton Hospital192192...Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds...................................................................
Total1704651716973683Under 52191128...3............17...171853...3............1
5 upwds.5302102...1145...161220...3901481...63............3