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Kensington 1900

[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 1861-18659,557 11,56230.7 28.56,540 8,26121.0 20.444 74140 318234 377No information.187 206Not separately classified.112 276Not separately classified.282 311999 1,5623.20 3.85
1866.187017,09032.110,85320.4572405372562195651,8743.52
1871.187520,86131.412,59518.91892892498534527130556031,9722.97
1876.188023,14929.914,51718.81513703239553113105286052,2212.87
1881.188521,38326.113.43816.4107326153964275115184381,685205
1886.189019,42823.513,81616.71442135305387...7744211,7722.14
1891.189518,51222.114,23516.99*297152306312...9274401,6151.92
1896.190018,20921.214,07516.444810524926228725041,6591.93

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.1234567Death-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.)
1856.18600130.450.75No information.0.600.360.913.201.251.95
1861.18650.180.780.930.510.680.778.851.792.06
1866.18700.010.451010.480.411.068.521.581.99
1871.18750.280.440.370.130.520.820.912.971.111.86
1876.18800.190.480.420120.690.190.782.870.921.95
1881.18850.130.390.190.120.520.170.532.050.601.45
1886.18900.000.530.160.370.470.100.512.140.631.51
1891.18950.020.350.180.360.370.120.521.920.671.25
1896.19000.000.520.120.290.810.010.591.930.521.41