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Kensington 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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16
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO THE VESTRY
OF THE
PARISH OF KENSINGTON.
Sanitary Department,
Vestry Hall, Kensington.
June 1865.
Gentlemen,
I beg to draw your attention as briefly as possible to the condition
of the health of the Inhabitants of your Parish as is shewn by the Mortality
Returns, and to its Sanitary Condition, as shewn by the number of notices,
summonses, &c., ordered to bo issued by your Sanitary Committee.

Table: The total number of deaths which has taken place during the twelve months ending December 31st, 1864, according to the returns gratuitously sent me weekly by the Registrar General, has been—

The total number of deaths which has taken place during the twelve months ending December 31st, 1864, according to the returns gratuitously sent me weekly by the Registrar General, has been—

Males.females..total.
Brompton Ward252237489
Town Ward6477131360
8999501849

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This indicates an increase of Mortality in the Brompton District of 33
over last year, and in the Town an increase of 188, or a total increase of
221 for the whole Parish. The mortality it will thus be seen, is not,
higher than usual, although it is next to impossible to attempt to ascertain
a population which has nearly doubled itself during the past ten
3'e.irs. 161 deaths took place in the Consumption Hospital, situate in
Brompton, nearly all of whom were Non-Parishioners; and would about
equal the numbers of our own Inhabitants dying in other Hospitals of
the Metropolis, not situate in Kensington.
120 paupers died in the Workhouse, viz., 55 males and 65 females.