[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough] page 68

Kensington 1953

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Quinquennial notifications and deaths in Kensington 1856 - 1953

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	Whooping Cough		Measles		Scarlet fever		Diphtheria
	Notific-ations	Deaths	Notific-ations	Deaths	Notific-ations	Deaths	Notific-ations	Deaths
	Notific-ations	Deaths	Notific-ations	Deaths	Notific-ations	Deaths	Notific-ations	Deaths	1856-1860	-	206	-	153	-	276	-	-
1861-1865	-	206	-	325	—	371	—	98
1866-1870	—	302	—	258	—	518	—	80
1871-1875	-	345	—	289	—	249	—	85
1876-1880	-	531	-	370	—	323	—	95
1881-1835	-	427	—	326	—	153	-	96
1886-1890	-	387	—	442	-	135	-	305
1891-1895	—	312	—	297	2,910	152	1,362	306
1896-1900	-	262	-	448	3,044	105	1,514	249
1901-1905	-	252	—	325	1,771	76	903	108
1906-1910	—	180	—	254	2,099	39	947	104
1911-1915	-	136	—	327	2,433	39	867	63
1916-1920	—	86	—	158	1,469	19	1,068	69
1921-1925	—	110	—	166	2,051	19	1,413	98
1926-1930	—	101	—	126	1,774	10	1,647	72
1931-1935	—	85	—	104	2,333	9	1,630	91
1936-1940	361 +	30	273 +	42	959	5	647	31
1941-1945	1,036	21	2,325	5	625	—	266	7
1946-1950	1,367	13	3,420	10	601	—	76	2
1951-1953	1,197	-	3,093	2	254	-	3	-

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Scarlet fever and Diphtheria first notifiable
1891.
+ Measles and whooping Cough first notifiable
1st October, 1938.
As pointed out in the Ministry of Health Bulletin for
May, 1953, nationally the relative position of whooping cough
has become more important. Since the end of the last war,
deaths from whooping cough have exceeded those from smallpox,
scarlet fever, measles and diphtheria added together. It is
the third largest cause of infant death. In addition,
children lose more time from school through this disease than
from the other common infections, and apart from poliomyelitis,
whooping cough is the disease carrying the greatest risk of
permanent after-effects.
The following table indicates through the death rates the
relative rise in importance of whooping cough

Table: Death rates per million living at ages under 15 - England and Wales

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Death rates per million living at ages under 15 - England and Wales

1856-1860		1901-1905		1945-1949
Scarlet fever	1,919	Measles	955	Whooping Cgh.	81
Diphtheria	1,347	Whooping Cgh.	874	Measles	47
Whooping Cgh.	1,300	Diphtheria	653	Diphtheria	30
Measles	1,114	Scarlet fever	319	Scarlet fever	3

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Table: Death rates per million living at ages under 15 - England and Wales