Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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CONTENTS.
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Gas, Results of Examinations for ascertaining the Illuminating Power
and Purity of 128
„ Supply of for street lighting 130
Conclusion 130
APPENDIX.
STATISTICAL AND OTHER TABLES.
Table 1.—Estimated Population in 1881, and ten previous years,
1871-80: Number of Inhabited Houses: Gross numbers
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages 135
„ 2.—Birth and Death Rates; Deaths of Children, and Deaths in
Public Institutions, 1881, and 1871-80 136
„ 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1881 137
„ 4.—Deaths from Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases: Pulmonary
Diseases; Tubercular Diseases; Wasting Diseases of
Infants; Convulsive Diseases of Infants (Gross numbers);
Proportions of to 1,000 deaths and to 1,000 population 138
„ 5.—Deaths in 1881 and in 1871-80 from the Seven Principal
Zymotic Diseases; in the Parish; the Metropolis, and in
England and Wales 139
„ 6 & 6a.—Sanitary Work, Summaries of 140
„ 7 & 8.—Comparative Analysis of Mortality in London and
Kensington from certain Classes of diseases; Death rates
and percentages of deaths, at ages; from Violence;
and in Public Institutions, &c., &c. 142
„ 9.—Localities where fatal cases of the more important of the
Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1881 144
„ 10.—Vaccination Officer's Annual Return 145
„ 11.—Slaughterhouses, Localities of, and Names of Licensees 146
„ 12.—Cowsheds „ „ „ 147
„ 13.—Small-pox, Epidemic, 1876-81: number of cases reported
whole parish (1,207) and north and south of Uxbridge
Road; number under, and over, fifteen years of age;
number removed to hospitals and treated at home 148