The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1926 page 9

Kensington 1926

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

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as a great tendency to damage the valves of the heart and thus handicap the patient throughout
fe, in addition to causing death from heart disease at a comparatively early age.
Towards the end of the year under review the question as to whether the Council could take
any steps to reduce the damage from rheumatic fever was under consideration by the Public Health
Committee. Subsequently a Sub-Committee of the Public Health Committee held a conference
with representatives of various interested organisations in the Borough. This conference concluded
the opinion that rheumatic fever in children under sixteen years of age should be made a notifiable
disease, that the Council should establish a supervisory clinic under the control of a skilled physician,
that "after care" work should be organised and that the Council should endeavour to arrange for
improved treatment of patients suffering from rheumatic fever, both in their homes and at hospitals.
Such measures would go a long way towards reducing the amount of heart disease and invalidity
following rheumatic fever.

Table: Table showing the number of deaths in 1926 from certain diseases of public health importance. arranged in four weekly periods.

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Table showing the number of deaths in 1926 from certain diseases of public health importance. arranged in four weekly periods.

Four Weeks ending	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Whooping. Cough.	Diphtheria.	Influenza.	Phthisis.	Cancer.	Bronchitis.	Pneumonia.	Diarrhoea and Enteritis.
January 30	7	—	—	1	6	13	30	32	17	5
February 27	8	—	—	2	6	12	27	20	18	2
March 27	3	1	—	3	3	11	31	18	18	4
April 24	3	1	—	—	9	11	14	20	32	2
May 22	1	—	—	4	5	6	26	10	12	3
June 19	2	1	1	1	2	5	18	12	7	2
July 17	—	—	—	_	2	6	22	4	7	5
August 14	—	—	1	2	—	6	27	1	3	7
Sept. 11	—	—	1	1	—	10	20	4	9	3
October 9	—	1	—	—	—	7	26	8	5	5
November 6	—	—	1	2	4	18	29	16	18	3
December 4	1	—	1	2	3	19	40	14	14	3
January 1	—	—	2	4	4	6	34	10	17	2
Totals	25	4	8	22	44	130	344	169	177	46

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Infantile Mortality.
During the year 1926, there were 2,717 births and 164 deaths of children under the age of
twelve months in the Borough. These figures give an infantile mortality rate (death of infants
under twelve months to each 1,000 births) of 60, which is by far the lowest rate recorded in the
history of the Borough.

Table: The following table gives the births and the infantile deaths and death rates in England and Wales, London, Kensington and the various Wards of the Borough for the year 1926, and the infantile death rates for the previous four years. Table 1.

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The following table gives the births and the infantile deaths and death rates in England and Wales, London, Kensington and the various Wards of the Borough for the year 1926, and the infantile death rates for the previous four years. Table 1.

1926.				Infantile Mortality Rate in previous four years,
District.	No. of Births.	No. of Deaths of children under 1 year of age.	Infantile Mortality rate.	Infantile Mortality Rate in previous four years,
District.	No. of Births.	No. of Deaths of children under 1 year of age.	Infantile Mortality rate.	1925	1924	1923	1922
England and Wales	694,897	48,503	70	75	75	69	77
London	78,825	5,008	64	67	69	60	74
The Borough	2,717	164	60	78	75	70	82
North Kensington	1,772	121	68	83	87	86	91
South Kensington	757	41	54	65	50	37	68
Wards.
St. Charles	456	25	55	91	69	85	65
Golborne	589	50	85	77	99	107	104
Norland	478	24	50	99	98	84	109
Pembridge	249	22	88	87	69	42	79
Holland	185	15	81	88	57	51	89
Earl's Court	196	8	41	66	38	11	47
Queen's Gate	110	6	54	25	10	32	52
Redcliffe	188	7	37	48	71	48	81
Brompton	78	5	64	108	51	36	55
Ward unknown	188	2	—	—	—	—	—

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Table: Table showing the number of deaths in 1926 from certain diseases of public health importance. arranged in four weekly periods.

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Table: The following table gives the births and the infantile deaths and death rates in England and Wales, London, Kensington and the various Wards of the Borough for the year 1926, and the infantile death rates for the previous four years. Table 1.