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Prefatory Remarks on Death-rate—Parochial, Metropolitan, and
National, in 1882 5
Registration District, "Kensington What it includes 7
,, Sub-Districts, "Kensington Town" and "Brompton" 7
Wards, Division of Parish into 8
Kensington, Population and Rateable Value of, 1801-82 9
Vital Statistics, 1882; Summary of 9
Zymotic Diseases, General Remarks on the "Seven Principal" 15
„ „ Number of Deaths from the „ „ 17
„ „ Death-rate from: in Kensington, in London, and
other large Towns, and in England and Wales 17
,, „ Monthly Return of Deaths from, in Kensington 18
Measles 18
Whooping-Cough 19
Scarlet Fever, Histories of Cases of 21
Diphtheria 23
Fever: Typhus, Enteric, Simple-Continued 24
„ Enteric, Local Prevalence of, at Notting Hill 24
„ „ Is it "Infectious?" 25
Diarrhœa 36
Small-Pox 26
Hospitals Commission (Infectious Diseases) 28
„ „ Subjects of Commissioners' Report 29
„ „ Practical Recommendations of the 29
,, „ Many of the Recommendations of the;
anticipated in "Propositions," submitted
by the Vestry to a Conference of Sanitary
Authorities, held July, 1878 30