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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 1926

The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1926

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Table: The following table indicates the source of notification and the kinds of births notified.

The following table indicates the source of notification and the kinds of births notified.

Source of Notification.Number of Births Notified.
Still Births.Live Births.Total Births.
Number notified by Midwives281,4531,481
„ „ „ Parents17879
„ „ „ Medical Practitioners12413425
„ „ „ Other Persons16285301
Births in the Borough572,2292,286
Notified from Institutions outside the Borough12318330
Totals692,5472,616

Table: Percentage of Births in Kensington notified during the past seven years, in accordance with the Notification of Births Act, 1907.

Percentage of Births in Kensington notified during the past seven years, in accordance with the Notification of Births Act, 1907.

Year.Percentage.
192090
192196
192293
192391
192494
192599
192696

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The importance of securing due compliance with the Notification of Births Act cannot be
over-estimated, for the information obtained constitutes the starting point of the work of Health
Visitors.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the Borough during the year was 2,564, but this does not
represent the true mortality among the population and, in order to obtain the corrected number
of deaths which does so represent the true mortality, it is necessary to add the deaths of
Kensington "residents" occurring beyond the district to the number registered as actually
occurring in the Borough, and to subtract from the total thus arrived at the deaths of "nonresidents"
taking place in the institutions provided in Kensington for the reception of sick or
infirm persons.
Total deaths registered in the Borough 2,564
Deaths of residents in public institutions, etc., beyond the Borough 557
3,121
Deaths of non-residents in public institutions, etc., within the
Borough 816
Corrected number of deaths belonging to the Borough 2,305
The corrected number of deaths gives a death-rate of 12 8 per 1,000 living.
The following table shows the number of deaths and the death-rates in England and Wales.
London, Kensington and the various districts in the Borough in 1926, and the rates for the
previous five years:—