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District Zymotic Rate.—The deaths from these diseases in North Kensington were 143,
and the rate T64 per 1,000 persons living. In South Kensington the deaths were 37, and the rate
0'42 per 1.000. The rate in the several wards was as follows: —
North Kensington—
St. Charles
Golborne
Norland
Pembridge
44 deaths, = 1.96
55 deaths, = 2.04
85 deaths, = 1.46
9 deaths, = 0.46
South Kensington—
Holland
Earl's Court
Queen's Gate
Redcliffe
Brompton
4 deaths, = 0.19
9 deaths, = 0.49
6 deaths, = 0.41
15 deaths, = 0.79
3 deaths, = 0.21
per 1,000 persons living.
The table at page 14 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases, as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given, in Tables B, C and D, pages 109 and 110,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the fifty-two years, 1856-1907;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each disease and the death-rate therefrom; in
Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennial periods; in Table D, the rate per 1,000 of
the population, in quinquennial periods, of the four notifiable diseases (small-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and "fever"), and of the three non-notifiable diseases—measles, whooping-cough and
diarrhoea.
In England and Wales the deaths from these diseases were at the rate of 1.26 per 1,000
persons living, against 1.94, 1.52, and 1.73, respectively, in the preceding three years. In the
seventy-six great towns, including London, the average rate was 1.54.

SMALL-POX.
There was no case of this disease in the Borough during the year. Only one death (in 1904)
has been registered in the five years 1903-7.