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CONTENTS.
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Prefatory Remarks 5—13
Mortality, higher rate of, in 1874, accounted for 5
Death Rate, Metropolitan and Local 6
Kensington " Registration District"—what it comprises 6
,, Parish of, division into Wards 6
,, Town and Brompton " Sub.registration Districts,"
contrast in the vital statistics of 7
Sexes, relative rate of mortality in the 7
Sub.districts, character of the prevalent fatal diseases in the 8
Kensington Town, greater fatality of Zymotic, Tubercular
and Lung diseases in 9
Deaths, (whole Parish) numbers of, from classes and orders of
diseases 9
Death Rate and Mean Temperature, monthly record of 10
Scarlet Fever, outbreaks of, supposed to depend on Contamination
of Milk 10
Dysentery and Diarrhoea, supposed to be due to the use of the
Milk of diseased Cows 11
Dairies, undesirable Multiplication of 13
Population 13
Males and Females, ages of, living at the Census, 1871 13
,, great disproportion in the relative numbers of 13
Parish, area of, density of Population, number of inhabited
houses, &c 14:
,, growth of Population: increase in Rateable Yalue of
Property 14
Marriages and Marriage.rate 14
Births and Birth.rate 15
Deaths and Death.rates of sexes and in Sub.districts 15
Death Rates at all Ages, the true method of calculating 17
„ Special causes of 17
Zymotic Diseases, deaths from 17
Measles, Epidemic of 18
Scarlet Fever, 18
Puerperal Mortality 22
Public Institutions, Deaths in 24
Inquests, facts in relation to, requiring explanation 25
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