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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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Class I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
The Class of diseases called Zymotic comprises, in the
Registrar-General's arrangement of the causes of death, six
Orders. The first and second Orders, Miasmatic and
Diarrhoeal, include the diseases which the Registrar-General
describes as the " seven principal diseases of the zymotic class,"
grouping, as he does, under the generic term "Fever," the
three fevers respectively named Typhus, Enteric, and Single
Continued.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the "seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class," which had been 341, 346, and 322, in the preceding
three years, were 460 in 1896, and 115 above the
corrected decennial average (345). These deaths, of which
398 belong to the Town sub-district, and 62 to Brompton, were
equivalent to 2.7 per 1,000 persons living (33 in the Town subdistrict
and 1.3 in Brompton), against 1.9 in 1895. The rate
in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 314 per 1,000 (2.6 in 1895);
the decennial rate being, for London 2.7, and for Kensington 2.0
per 1,000.
The subjoined table shows the number of deaths from the several diseases, in the sub-districts, and at outlying public institutions:—
Disease. | Sub-districts. | In Hospital. | Total. | Decennial Average. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Town. | Brompton. | Town. | Brompton. | Uncorrected. | Corrected for increase of Population. | ||
Smallpox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Measles | 150 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 173 | 73.9 | 75.4 |
Scarlet Fever | 6 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 39 | 28.7 | 29.3 |
Diphtheria | 28 | 10 | 18 | 16 | 72 | 61.1 | 62.3 |
Whooping-Cough | 95 | 4 | ... | ... | 99 | 69.9 | 71.3 |
Typhus Fever | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
Enteric Fever | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 16.9 | 17.2 |
Simple Continued Fever | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
Diarrhœa | 55 | 6 | ... | ... | 61 | 86.1 | 87.8 |
341 | 42 | 57 | 20 | 460 | 338.7 | 345.4 |