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Kensington 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON.
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ANNUAL (INTERIM) REPORT
on he
HEALTH OF THE BOROUGH
for the Year
1939
by
JAMES FENTON, C.B.E., M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H
by
JAMES FENTON, C.B.E., M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR THS YEAR 1939.
| Population (estimated) | 172,100 | Area of borough in acres | 2,291 | ||
| Product of a 1d. rate | £12,915 | ||||
| Density of population per acre | 75 | No. of inhabited houses | 36,064 | ||
| Rateable value | £3,449,635 | ||||
| Total. | M. | F. | |||
| Live births (legitimate) | 1,828 | 955 | 873 | Birth rate | 12.0 |
| (illegitimate) | 236 | 100 | 136 | Rate per 1,000 total births. | 32 |
| Stillbirths | 65 | 37 | 28 | ||
| Deaths | 2,072 | 931 | 1,141 | Death rate (after adjustment) | 12.2 |
| Deaths from puerperal causes:- | Deaths. | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births. | |||
| Puerperal sepsis | 3 | 1.5 | |||
| 1.5 | Other puerperal causes | 3 | |||
| Total | 6 | 3.0 | |||
| Death rate of infants under one year of age:- | Deaths from measles (all ages) | Nil. | |||
| All infants per 1,000 births | 64 | Deaths from cancer (all ages) | 337 | ||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 60 | Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) | 7 | ||
| Illegitimate infants per l,000 illegitimate live births | 81 | ||||
| Deaths from phthisis | 81 | Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 25 | ||
| Deaths from all forms of tuberculosis | 89 | Phthisis death rate | 0.51 | ||
| Tuberculosis death rate. | 0.55 | ||||
| Deaths from the zymotic diseases. | 38 | Zymotic death rate | 0.24 (lowest rate recorded for the borough) | ||