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Kensington 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS for the Year 1938-
| Population (estimated) | 174,100 | Area of borough in acres | 2,291 | |||
| Density of population per acre | 76 | Number of marriages | 2,127 | |||
| Rateable value | £3,427,044 | Product of a 1d- rate | £14,279 | |||
| Number of inhabited houses | 37,519 | |||||
| Total. | M. | F. | ||||
| Live births | legitimate 2,009 | 1,052 | 957 | Birth rate | 12.8 | |
| Illegitimate 227 | 111 | 116 | ||||
| Still births 62 | 31 | 31 | Rate per 1,000 total births | 27 | ||
| Deaths 2,049 | 952 | 1,097 | Death rate (after adjustment) | 10.9 | ||
| Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions | 56% | |||||
| Deaths from puerperal causes :— | Deaths | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births - | ||||
| Puerperal sepsis | 2 | 0-9 | ||||
| Other puerperal causes | 3 | 1-3 | ||||
| Total | 5 | 2-2 | ||||
| Death rate of infants under one year of age :— | ||||||
| All infants per 1,000 births | 78 | Deaths from measles (all ages) | 13 | |||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 73 | ,, cancer (all ages) | 314 | |||
| „ whooping cough (all ages) | 5 | |||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 123 | „ diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 55 | |||
| Phthisis death rate | 0.53 | |||||
| Deaths from phthisis | 93 | Tuberculosis death rate | 0.60 | |||
| Deaths from all forms of tuberculosis | 106 | Zymotic death rate | 0.43 | |||
| Deaths from the zymotic diseases | 85 | |||||