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Since the preceding Table was worked out I have become
acquainted with an interesting and valuable paper by Mr. Thomas
A. Welton, F.S.S., on " The Effect of Migrations upon Death
Rates," read before the Statistical Society on the 15th June, 1875,
and which enables me to supplement it by the following Table,
in which are contrasted the death rates at certain ages in England
and Wales, and in the Metropolis during the 10 years 1861.70,
and in the Parish of Kensington in 1874, calculated on the number
of deaths per 1,000 persons living at the several ages.
Place. Age.
0.5 15.25 25.35 55.65 65.75
England & Wales (10 years 68.5 7.3
London 1861.70 81.9 6.3 9.8 38.8 75.4
Kensington 1874 73.l0 3.6 5.7 26.8 62.1
It must be obvious that the truest mode of calculating death
rates is that used in the above Tables, and the result of such calculations
is by no means unfavourable to the character for salubrity
of the parish of Kensington Did time permit of following
out the method for the sexes, and in the two sub.districts, the
results would, I doubt not, be very much more favourable for
Brompton, and for the female sex, than they are for the entire
parish, and for both sexes.
SPECIAL CAUSES OP DEATH.
Zymotic Diseases.—The deaths from the seven principal diseases
of the zymotic class, named below, were 388 in number, viz. :
332 in the Town sub.district and 56 in Brompton, an increase of
98 over the previous year: 96 of the additional deaths belonging
to the Town sub.district. Nevertheless, the mortality from these
maladies was little above the average of the previous 10 years
(380), and considerably below the corrected number, after due
allowance for the increase of population. The deaths were equivalent
to 2.8 per 1,000 persons living, and to 144 per 1,000 deaths,
as against an average of 178 in the 10 years 1864.73. The
deaths in London in 1874 from the same diseases were 147 per
1,000 deaths, and in all England in 1872 (the latest year of publication),
188.