Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE C. Births, and Birth-rate; Deaths, and Death-rate; Deaths from the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class ; and Zymotic Death-rate, in Kensington, 1856-1900 : Arranged in Quinquennial Periods.
Quinquennial Period. | Births. | Birthrate. | Deaths. | Deathrate. | Deaths from Zymotic Diseases. | Zymotic Death-rate, per 1,000 persons living. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria, | WhoopingCough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued Fever. | Diarrhoea, | Total. | ||||||
1856-1860 1861-1865 | 9,557 11,562 | 30.7 28.5 | 6,540 8,261 | 21.0 20.4 | 44 74 | 140 318 | 234 377 | No information. | 187 206 | Not separately classified. | 112 276 | Not separately classified. | 282 311 | 999 1,562 | 3.20 3.85 |
1866.1870 | 17,090 | 32.1 | 10,853 | 20.4 | 57 | 240 | 537 | 256 | 219 | 565 | 1,874 | 3.52 | |||
1871.1875 | 20,861 | 31.4 | 12,595 | 18.9 | 189 | 289 | 249 | 85 | 345 | 27 | 130 | 55 | 603 | 1,972 | 2.97 |
1876.1880 | 23,149 | 29.9 | 14,517 | 18.8 | 151 | 370 | 323 | 95 | 531 | 13 | 105 | 28 | 605 | 2,221 | 2.87 |
1881.1885 | 21,383 | 26.1 | 13.438 | 16.4 | 107 | 326 | 153 | 96 | 427 | 5 | 115 | 18 | 438 | 1,685 | 205 |
1886.1890 | 19,428 | 23.5 | 13,816 | 16.7 | 1 | 442 | 135 | 305 | 387 | ... | 77 | 4 | 421 | 1,772 | 2.14 |
1891.1895 | 18,512 | 22.1 | 14,235 | 16.9 | 9* | 297 | 152 | 306 | 312 | ... | 92 | 7 | 440 | 1,615 | 1.92 |
1896.1900 | 18,209 | 21.2 | 14,075 | 16.4 | 448 | 105 | 249 | 262 | 2 | 87 | 2 | 504 | 1,659 | 1.93 |
Note.—The Medical Officer of Health is not responsible for the accuracy of the figures above the horizontal line between
1866.1870 and 1871.1875, excepting as to calculation of rates.
* All in 1893.
TABLE D. Death-rate in Kensington, per 1,000 persons living, from each of the Seven Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class; Arranged, also, in two groups; viz. (1) The four notifiable infectious diseases—Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and" Fever"; and (2) The three non-notifiable diseases—Measles, Whooping. Cough, and Diarrhoea.
Quinquennial Period. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Death-rate per 1,000 from— | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | "Fever." | Diarrhoea. | The Seven Diseases. | The Four Notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 1, 3, 4, and 6.) | The Three Non-notifiable Infectious Diseases. (Columns 2, 5, and 7.) | |
1856.1860 | 013 | 0.45 | 0.75 | No information. | 0.60 | 0.36 | 0.91 | 3.20 | 1.25 | 1.95 |
1861.1865 | 0.18 | 0.78 | 0.93 | 0.51 | 0.68 | 0.77 | 8.85 | 1.79 | 2.06 | |
1866.1870 | 0.01 | 0.45 | 101 | 0.48 | 0.41 | 1.06 | 8.52 | 1.58 | 1.99 | |
1871.1875 | 0.28 | 0.44 | 0.37 | 0.13 | 0.52 | 0.82 | 0.91 | 2.97 | 1.11 | 1.86 |
1876.1880 | 0.19 | 0.48 | 0.42 | 012 | 0.69 | 0.19 | 0.78 | 2.87 | 0.92 | 1.95 |
1881.1885 | 0.13 | 0.39 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.52 | 0.17 | 0.53 | 2.05 | 0.60 | 1.45 |
1886.1890 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 0.16 | 0.37 | 0.47 | 0.10 | 0.51 | 2.14 | 0.63 | 1.51 |
1891.1895 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 0.18 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.12 | 0.52 | 1.92 | 0.67 | 1.25 |
1896.1900 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.12 | 0.29 | 0.81 | 0.01 | 0.59 | 1.93 | 0.52 | 1.41 |