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Kensington 1877

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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CONTENTS.
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Prefatory Remarks 5
Low Death Rate (General and Zymotic) in 1877 5
Death Rates (1873-7) Parochial and Metropolitan 5
Registration " (Kensington) " District, and Registration
Sub-districts, what they comprise 6
Sub-districts ("Town " and " Brompton") differences in
the rate of mortality, &c., in the 6
Zymotic Diseases 6
Small Pox, epidemic of 7
Typhus Fever, erroneous diagnosis of 10
Enteric Fever, endemic of 11
Hospital Accommodation for Non-pauper Infectious Sick, 19
,, „ Action of Metropolitan Asylum
District Board in relation to
provision of 20
„ ,, Action of Vestry 21—2
,, ,, Conference of Vestries and District
Boards with respect to 22
Fulham Small Pox Hospital, mistakenly supposed to be a
source of danger to the neighbourhood 24
Infections Diseases, prevention of 26
„ ,, Sources of information respecting the
existence of 26
Population, &c., of Kensington, and of the Sub-districts,
relative proportion of the sexes, number of inhabited
houses, &c. 28
Kensington, evidences of the Growth, Wealth, &c., of
(1801-78) 29
Marriages and Marriage-rate 29
Births and Birth-rate 29
Deaths and Death-rate (at ages and periods, and of the sexes) 30—32