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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 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: TABLE IV.Shewing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1882 from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 Deaths from all causes; also the number of deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1000 Births and to 1000 Deaths from all causes under one year.

TABLE IV.

Shewing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1882 from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 Deaths from all causes; also the number of deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1000 Births and to 1000 Deaths from all causes under one year.

Division I. (Adults).Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Population, at all ages.Deaths per 1000 of Total Deaths, at all ages.
1. Principal Zymotic Diseases3762.2189
2. Pulmonary Diseases6093.6226
3. Principal Tubercular Diseases3642.2135
Division II. (Infants under One Year.Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Births.Deaths per 1000 of Total Deaths under One Year.
4. Wasting Diseases14533228
5. Convulsive Diseases8720121

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NOTES.
1. Includes Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough,
Typhus, Enteric (or Typhoid), and Simple Continued Fevers, and
Diarrhoea. Thirteen of the deaths occuired in Hospitals outside the
District.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, Rickets, and Tabes: the deaths of
non-parishioners at the Brompton Consumption Hospital are excluded.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy, Debility, Want of Breast Milk, and Premature
Birth.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, Infantile Meningitis, Convulsions, and Teething.
(In Table III Hydrocephalus and Infantile Meningitis are classified with
tubercular diseases, Convulsions with diseases of the nervous system,
and Teething with diseases of the digestive system.)