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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Kensington 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]

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Table: Position in life of the male parents of the infants who died under one year of age, as given in the registers of deaths:—

Position in life of the male parents of the infants who died under one year of age, as given in the registers of deaths:—

Child ofNumber of Deaths in Sub-Districts.In whole Parish.
Town.Brompton.
Labourer1546160
Costermonger12...12
Artizan11710127
Cabman, Carman, Coachman, Horse-keeper, 'Bus Conductor681684
Male Servant3...3
Police Officer, Soldier, Postman Sailor12...12
Railway Servant, Fireman L.C.C.12...12
Commercial Traveller, Clerk, Collector, Student, Actor12820
Trade Assistant54862
Tradesman461056
Merchant448
Professional Person11718
Person of Independent Means1...1
Deaths of Illegitimate Children under one year of age72981
Total57878656

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The deaths of children over one year, and under five years
of age, were 455 in number; the deaths under five years, therefore,
were 1,111, or 1,093 after correction for the 53rd week:
(as compared with 965, 1,022, and 951, in the preceding three
years respectively), being equal to 299 per 1,000 births, the proportion
in London, as a whole, being 262.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of
age, 100, 118, and 129, in the preceding three years respectively,
were 104 in 1896 (males 55 and females 49), of which 92 were
registered in the Town sub-district. These deaths were equal
to 47.1 per cent. on births registered as illegitimate. Of the
104 children only 23 outlived the first year.