Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]
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TABLE II.
Showing the Annual Birth-rate and Death-rate; Death-rates of Children; and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions to 1,000 Deaths, for the year 1896, and the preceding ten years.
The Year. | Birth-rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Death-rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Deaths of Children under one year; per l,000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under one year; per 1,000 of Total Deaths. | Deaths of Children under five years; per 1.000 of Total Deaths. | Deaths in Public Institutions per 1,000 of Total Deaths.1 |
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1896 | 21.4 | 16.7 | 176 | 227 | 384 | 283 |
1895 | 21.4 | 16.2 | 172 | 227 | 346 | 277 |
1894 | 21.7 | 15.6 | 174 | 242 | 389 | 285 |
1893 | 21.8 | 17.4 | 170 | 214 | 331 | 254 |
1892 | 22.2 | 17.2 | 158 | 204 | 337 | 238 |
1891 | 23.1 | 18.1 | 164 | 206 | 315 | 252 |
1890 | 23.3 | 17.8 | 168 | 221 | 371 | 207 |
1889 | 22.3 | 14.6 | 132 | 203 | 327 | 236 |
1888 | 22.8 | 17.1 | 160 | 214 | 381 | 208 |
1887 | 23.9 | 17.4 | 172 | 237 | 393 | 212 |
1886 | 25.2 | 16.7 | 154 | 230 | 373 | 219 |
Average of 10 years. 1886-95. | 22.8 | 16.8 | 162 | 220 | 356 | 239 |
* Includes Deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions, but excludes Deaths of Non-Parishioners at Brompton
Consumption Hospital. St. Marylebone Infirmary. Notting Hill. etc.