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 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

13
information that is absolutely requisite without imposing an undue amount of work on those
who may use them. Should the tables come into general use they cannot fail to invest the
vital statistics in the reports of medical officers with a much greater and more universal
interest than heretofore."
TABLES similar to those above referred to as being numbered I. to VI. had previously been employed
in my annual reports, and the Tables I. to VI. were used from 1873 onward to 1899, inclusive, in
the tabulation of vital, mortal and sanitary statistics. These tables since 1894 have been
supplemented by others ("A" and "B"), directed by the Local Government Board to be used, so as
to secure a "tabular statement of mortality, and a tabular statement of infectious disease in all
districts on a uniform plan." These latter tables have now been superseded by Tables, numbered
I to IV., recently directed by the Board to be used. Table I. is subjoined ; Table II. will be found
at page 14, Table III. at page 45, and Table IV. at page 15. The table on page 16, is a summary
of causes of death, as set out in former reports in Table III. (now numbered VIII. and printed
in Appendix II.), arranged in Classes and Orders of diseases, as in the annual reports of the
Registrar-General. The other tables used in preceding annual reports, now numbered from VI. to
XIV., will be found in Appendix II., pp. 87—104.

Table: TABLE I. (Required, by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health).For Whole District.

TABLE I. (Required, by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health).For Whole District.

Year.Population estimated to Middle of each Year.births.Deaths under One Year op Age.Deaths at all Ages. Total.Deaths in Public Institutions.Deaths of Nonresidents registered in District.Deaths of Residents registered beyond District.Deaths Ages.at all Nett.
Number.Rate.*Number.Rate per 1,000 Births reg stored.Number.Rate.*Number.Rate.*
12345678910111213
1890166,0803,86423.36511683,37520.81,0606352112,95117.8
1891166,5003,84723.16331643,60921.61,2977902473,06618.4
1892167,2003,71822.25871583,27219.61,0556262362,88217.2
1898167,9003,66121.86251703,22519.21,0426213122,91617.4
1894168,6003,66521.76361742,98317.71,0706132832,62315.6
1895169,3003,62121.46241723,06518.11,0626258082,74816.2
1896170,0003,71721.46561763,15818.61,0656203532,89116.7
1897170,7008,68321.66091653,02517.71,1646913332,66715.6
1898172,0003,63321.16551808,15118.31,1236392862,79816.3
1899172,4003,59020.86421793,42219.81.3207223213,02117.5
Averages for years 1890-1899169,0688,69921.86311713,2281911,1256612892,85616.9
1900173,0003,58620.76411793,08717.71,1326722832,69815.6

Text

Copy text to clipboard

* Kates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Note.—The deaths included in columns 5, 7 and 9 of this Table, are all those registered during the
year within the Borough. The deaths included in column 12 are the number in column 7, corrected by the
subtraction of the number in column 10, and the addition of the number in column 11.
The term "non-residents" in column 10, means persons brought into the Borough on account of illness
and dying there. The term "residents" in column 11, means persons taken out of the Borough on account
of illness and dying thereout.
Area of Borough in acres 2,190
Total population at all ages 173,000
No. (approximate) of inhabited houses 22,800
Average number of persons per house ... 7'6