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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 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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The deaths in 1879 were 2,991. This number includes 104 deaths,
of non-parishioners that took place in the Brompton Consumption
Hospital, and which are retained in our vital statistics by way of compensation
for an unknown number of deaths of parishioners, which
occurred in hospitals and elsewhere outside the parish. It also includes
26 deaths of parishioners, in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum
District Board. These 2,991 deaths are equal to a rate of 19.1 per
1000 persons living. The decennial rate is 19.2 per 1,000, consequently
the rate last year was 0.1 per 1,000 below the average.
But the year was an exceptional one, including as it did a period of
53 weeks. Calculated for an ordinary year of 52 weeks, the death rate
would have been 18.7 per 1000 or 0.5 below the decennial average.
The subjoined table shows the relation of our local death rate, in seven years, to the Metropolitan rate, and to the rate in the several great divisions of the Metropolis, as mapped out by the Registrar-General in his annual summary :—
| Death-rate. | 1879. | 1878. | 1877. | 1876. | 1875. | 1874. | 1873. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 19.1 | 20.3 | 17.3 | 19.5 | 19.4 | 19.5 | 18.3 per 1,000 | |
| London | 23.3 | 23.5 | 21.9 | 22.3 | 23.7 | 22.5 | 22.5 | |
| West Districts | 22.4 | 21.6 | 19.1 | 21.0 | 22.1 | 20.9. | 20.5 | „ |
| North „ | 22.7 | 22.3 | 21.8 | 21.4 | 22.3 | 21.8 | 21.2 | |
| Central „ | 25.2 | 24.9 | 24.1 | 24.0 | 26.0 | 25.6 | 25.0 | |
| East „ | 25.8 | 24.9 | 24.4 | 24.0 | 25.5 | 25.4 | 25.2 | |
| South „ | 24.2 | 24.2 | 21.3 | 22.1 | 25.0 | 21.5 | 22.0 | |
Kensington Registration District.—" Kensington" is the
name of a registration district, which comprises Kensington parish,
and the parishes of Paddington, Fulham, and Hammersmith.
The Parish of Kensington is, for some parochial purposes, divided
into "wards." The subjoined figures shew the acreage of the several
The subjoined table shows the relative areas of the component parishes, and other particulars relating to the census-year, 1871 :—
| Area is statute acres. | Inhabited houses 1871. | Populations 1871. |
|---|---|---|
| Kensington 2,190 | 15,735 | 120,299 |
| Paddington 1,251 | 11,847 | 96,813 |
| Hammersmith 2,287 | 6,719 | 42,691 |
| Fulham 1,716 | 3,469 | 23,350 |