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The rateable annual value of property in the wards in 1871,
was St. Mary Abbotts, £323,992; Holy Trinity, £246,716;
and St. John and St. James, £365,012. Total, whole parish,
£935,720. In 1881 the returns for the first and second wards,
which cannot now be given separately, show a rateable value
of £1,078,512 (increase, £507,804); for St. John and St. James,
of £501,704 (increase £136,692). Total, whole parish,
£1,580,216.

SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS, 1882.
The first thing to be remarked is the fact, already mentioned,
that in 1882 the death-rate in Kensington was lower than in
any other year of which we possess the vital statistics. And
this lower death-rate was due, not to exceptional causes operating
at particular periods, but to a good average condition of the
public health from the beginning to the end of the year; for in
eleven out of thirteen monthly reports, each covering a period
of four weeks, I had the satisfaction of recording a rate below
the decennial average, while in the remaining two reports
relating to the 5th—8th and 41st—44th weeks respectively, the
rate recorded was only 1.0 and 0.7 per 1,000 in excess of the
decennial average. The mortality from the principal diseases of
the zymotic class, as a whole, was below the average ; but the
deaths from measles, scarlet fever, and diphtheria were slightly,
and the deaths from whooping cough considerably, above the
average. On the other hand, and for the first time since 1875,
we had not one death from small-pox. The deaths from "fever"