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Kensington 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]
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average number (2,861). Of the deaths registered 2.344 belong
to the Town sub-district and 547 to Brompton. The deathrate
(which in the preceding three years had been 17.4, 15.6,
and 16 2, per 1,000 respectively) was 16.7 in 1896, being 0.1
below the decennial average, and 19 below the rate in the
Metropolis as a whole (18.6); this, moreover, being 1.5 below
the decennial average (20.1). The sex-rate was, of males 20.9 per
1,000, of females 145 per 1000, as compared with 19.3 and 14.5 in
1895. The rate in the Town sub-district was 18.9, in Brompton
11.1, against 18.7 and 10.7 respectively in the previous year.
The rate in North Kensington was 21.5 per 1000; the rate in
South Kensington was 11.7 per 1,000.
| North Kensington | North 652 deaths, equal to 20.0 per 1,000 persons living |
| North-east 546 deaths, equal to 16.9 per l,000 persons living | |
| North-west 651 deaths, equal to 30.9 per 1,000 persons living | |
| South Kensington | Central 266 deaths, equal to 13.2 per 1,000 persons living |
| South-east 291 deaths, equal to 9.1 per 1,000 persons living | |
| South-west 429 deaths, equal to 13.4 per 1,000 persons living |
The deaths in the "Notting Dale" special area of the
North-west district were 187, and equal to 50.0 per 1000 of
the population.
District Rates of Mortality.—The table at page 22
shows the death-rate in the several districts of the parish, not
only for the whole year, but also in each of the 13 four-weekly
periods corresponding to my monthly reports. Confining attention
to the sanitary inspecting districts, it will be observed that
in the three districts (Central, South-east, and South-west)
which go to make up the Parliamentary division of South