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Kensington 1907

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

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Table: APPENDIX I.Deaths registered from all causes in the Year 1907. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishoners 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 18.

APPENDIX I.Deaths registered from all causes in the Year 1907. (Exclusive of the Deaths of Non-Parishoners 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 18.

CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total all Ages.sub-district.
Kensington TownBrompton.
0 to 1.1 to 5.5 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.
GENERAL DISEASES19612249297468108112948741318980777203
LOCAL DISEASES1651192941431081362072401915128413301072258
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE2014438914161113341038221
DEATHS FROM ILL-DEFINED
AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES52...V1......2125258585
48825582731261852588378362919568824711984487
GENERAL DISEASES
Small-poxVaccinated.............................................
Not Vaccinated........................................... . .
Doubtful.............................................
Cow-pox, Effects of Vaccination..........................................
Chicken-pox. . ................................... . ....
Measles (Morbilli)5251........................3031265
Epidemic Rose Rash, German Measles.............................................
Scarlet Fever...45........................4945
Typhus.............................................
Plague.............................................
Relapsing Fever.............................................
Influenza32112481191755634419
Whooping-Cough34425........................7681774
Mumps.......................................• • .
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup311811..................1424195
Cerebro-Spinal Fever1.........1..................122...
Simple Continued Fever "Pyrexia"..........................................
Enteric Fever......1...2.....................582
Asiatic Cholera.................................• . '......
Epidemic Diarrhœa: Epidemic (or Zymotic) Enteritis132...........................1515141
Diarrhœa, Choleraic Diarrhœa82...............1......31014113
Dysentery.....................1............11...
Malarial Fever.............................................
Hydrophobia.......................................
Glanders, Farcy.............................................
Anthrax, Splenic Fever.............................................
Tetanus..........................................
Syphilis101......1...2......1...111515...
Gonorrhœa, Stricture of Urethra.............................................
Puerperal Septicaemia, Sapraemia............21..................33......
Puerperal Pyaemia.............................................
Puerperal Phlegmasia Dolens..........................................
Puerperal Fever..........................................
Infective Endocarditis1...1.....................1211
Epidemic Pneumonia,Pneumonic Fever.............................................
Erysipelasl.....................22...1541
Septicasmia (not Puerperal)l...2...11...............155...
Pyæmia (not Puerperal)l..............................111...
Phlegmon, Carbuncle (not Anthrax).....................2...2......431
Phagedæna.............................................
Other Septic Diseases.............................................
Tuberculous Phthisis (Pulm. Tubercul.)...12144525321771...114411430
"Phthisis".........466932.........an255
Tuberculous Meningitis101611...1...1............26363
Tuberculous Peritonitis5511.....................101 9102
Tabes Mesenterica.............................................
Lupus....................................11...
Tubercle of other Organs1......11...11.........1541
General Tuberculosis3464584121...8332310
Scrofula.............................................
Parasitic Diseases.............................................
Starvation....................................'''......
Scurvy.........1........................1......
Alcoholism, Delirium Tremens............2352............128l
Opium, Morphia Habit.............................................
Ptomaine Poisoning.............................................
Industrial PoisoningBy .Lead............11...............22...
By Phosphorus.............................................
By Arsenic & other Metals.............................................
Rheumatic-Fever, Acute Rheumatism......411..................651
Rheumatism of Heart..........................................
Chronic Rheumatism...........................2......22...
Rheumatic Arthritis, Rheumatic Gout...........................2......33...
Gout.....................2211...642
Carcinoma...............821361 9142...1007624
Carried forward100115472872548477454311215676546130