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Kensington 1900

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

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Table: TABLE VIII. (Table III. in precedinq Annual Reports.) Deaths registered from all causes in the Year 1900. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Borough, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions, &c., without the Borough.) For a Summary of this Table, see page 16.

TABLE VIII. (Table III. in precedinq Annual Reports.) Deaths registered from all causes in the Year 1900. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Public Institutions within the Borough, but inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Public Institutions, &c., without the Borough.) For a Summary of this Table, see page 16.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total all 1 Ages.Sub-district.
0 to 1.1 to 6.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 35.35 to 45.45 to 55.55 to 65.65 to 75.75 to 85.85 and upwards.Kensington Town.Brompton.
CLASSES.
I SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES...144116188131715221823926040335152
II. PARASITIC DISEASES3......,,,......1......344...
III. DIETETIC DISEASES...475121......20155
IV CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES28352235619391754527263514405109
V DEVELOPMENTAL DISEASES10921216522811121018525
VI. LOCAL DISEASES239723233571061302182431743431113381055283
VII. DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE376381131641161431068917
VIII. DEATHS FROM ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES81511...221343861038914
64123677851162282593233392877787726982193505
I. SPECIFIC FEBRILE or ZYMOTIC DISEASES. Order 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Small-pox.............................................
Measles26684........................9498935
Scarlet Fever...21...1..................2422
Typhus.............................................
Whooping-cough17133........................3033303
Diphteria21951.....................2127252
Simple Continned or Ill-defined Fever.............................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.......246211............16142
Other Miasmatic Diseases—Influenza...13...311817122191856025
2.—Diarrheal Diseases..............................................
Simple Cholers1..............................111...
Diarrhoea, Dysentery.8012......12224292105987
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever.............................................
Ague.............................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
Cow-Pox, and effects of Vaccination.............................................
Other Diseases (e.g., Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).............................................
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis161...1......1............1719163
Gonorrhoea, Stricture of the Urethra........................1.........11...
6.—Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas2............1321......2963
Pyaemia, Septicaemia ..............................................
Puerperal Fever.........221..................55...
144116188131715221823926040335152
II.—PARASITIC DISEASES.
Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases3.....................1......344...
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases.............................................
3.....................1......344
III.—DIETETIC DISEASES.
Want of Breast Milk—Starvation........................• ••...............
Scurvy...........................1......11...
Chronic Alcoholism............35312. . .......14113
Delirium Tremens............122...............532
............475121......20155
IV.—CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart......332121............12111
Rheumatism............112.........422
Gout...............112...1......55...
Rickets24...........................6651
Cancer, Malignant Disease.........2218294237211...15210547
Tabes Mesenterica621........................8981
Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus111861...1...............2937298
Phthisis34214666432142...321017733
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula987864611...1750464
Purpura, Haemorrhagic Diathesis..........................................
Anaemia, Chlorosis, Leucocythaenia............11221.........752
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus......1...266121...19109
Other Constitutional Diseases............111...............321
28352235619391754527263514405109

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