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TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOB THE YEAR 1880.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
I propose to place before you in this Annual Report the
vital statistics of the parish for the registration year 1880 which
terminated on the 1st January, 1881. The ordinary sanitary
statistics will, as usual, be compiled for the parochial year, which
terminated on the 25th March, 1881. Other matters calling for
notice will be dealt with as occasion may require.
The vital statistics will be calculated on an estimated population
of 159,700, at the middle of 1880, this number being arrived at
on data furnished by the recent Census.
The year was on the whole a salubrious one, as judged by the
death-rate; but, as we shall see, it was characterised by somewhat
extreme rates at different periods.
The gross number of deaths was 2,884, fewer by 108 than in
1879, (a period of 53 weeks), and 160 below the corrected decennial
average. This total includes 99 of non-parishioners that took
place at the Brompton Consumption Hospital, as well as a not
inconsiderable number at the parish Workhouse, and at St. Joseph's
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