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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 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: TABLE A (continued).FOURTH QUARTER ENDING 28TH DECEMBER, And total Deaths in the Parish during the entire year 1872.

TABLE A (continued).

FOURTH QUARTER ENDING 28TH DECEMBER, And total Deaths in the Parish during the entire year 1872.

Kensington Town.Brompton.CAUSES OF DEATH.All Ages.AGES.Whole year and at all Ages.Kensington Town.Brompton.CAUSES OF DEATH.All Ages.AGES.Whole Year and at all ages.
Under 1.1 & un. 55 to 20.20 to 40.40 to 60.60 to 80.80 & upRegistration District.Total Deaths in entire ParishUnder 1.1 & un. 55 to 20.20 to 40.40 to 60.60 to 80.80 & up.Registration District.Total Deaths in entire Parish
Ken-sngtn. Town.Brmp-ton.Ken-sngtn Town.Brmp-ton.
(classes.)Order 4.—Digestive Organs
6115I. ZYMOTIC DISEASES761723131454382904722...Gastritis2............11...4...4
8619II. CONSTITUTIONAL1051298263020...3668S4544...Enteritis431...............718
19757III LOCAL254773310233666974217391521Peritonitis3...1...2617
5010IV. DEVELOPMENTAL60371...1...5621042252Ascites.................................
81V. VIOLENT DEATHS93...2...21138745Ulceration of Intestines........................4...4
103(Not specified or ill-defined.)137...312...25833Hernia.................................
Ileus...........................11
412105517153663367749826176340821711...Intussusception1..................13...3
Stricture of Intestines.................................
I. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Fistula.................................
Order 1.—Miasmatic.4...Stomach Disease, &c.4.........211718
9...Small-pox91314.........62668Pancreas Disease,&c..................................
21Measles312...............291544Hepatitis........................5...5
72Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina)91431.........22729Jaundice........................4...4
32Diphtheria5...221.........12315104Li/ver Disease,&c.14......2164132941
Quinsy.................................Spleen Disease, &c—.................................
5...Croup513.........1...17118
132Whooping-cough15662...1......70878Order 5.—Urinary Organs.
Typhus........................3...31...Nephritis1.....................235
32Enteric or Typhoid Fever5......311......18523Ischuria........................2...2
3...Simple continued Fever3...............1...996...Bright's Disease (Nephria)6............24...20525
Erysipelas........................819Diabetes........................426
31Puerperal Fever (Metria)4.........4.........9413Calculus (Stone)........................1...1
Carbuncle.................................Cystitis........................33
Influenza.................................1...Kidney Disease, &c1...............1...9211
1...Dysentery1...............1...3...3
51Diarrhoea6.....................8327110Order 6.—Organs of Generation
1...Simple Cholera1.........1.........527Ovarian Dropsy........................2...2
Ague.................................Uterus Disease, &c........................6...6
Remittent Fever........................314
2Rheumatism2.....................6612Order .—Organs of Locomotion
Other Zymotic Diseases........................3...3Synovitis (Arthritis).................................
Order 2.—Enthetic.10...10Joint Disease, &c..................................
2...Syphilis2...1......1.........10...10Order 8.—Integumentary.
lStricture of Urethra1............1......112
Hydrophobia—.................................2...Phlegmon21...............18...8
Glanders.................................