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TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1882.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
I propose to place before you, in this my annual
report, the vital statistics for the registration year 1882, which
terminated December 30. The ordinary sanitary statistics have
been compiled, as usual, for the parochial year—viz., to March
25, 1883. Other matters calling for notice will be dealt with
as occasion may require.
The vital statistics are calculated on an estimated population
at the middle of the year, of 165,450, a number arrived at
mainly on data furnished by the census taken in April, 1881.
The year 1882 was a healthy one; the death-rate being the
lowest on record. The total deaths, 2,691, were 372 below the
corrected decennial average. This total, it should be mentioned,
includes 13 deaths of parishioners in the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums District, and 80 of non-parishioners at the
Brompton Consumption Hospital, as well as a not inconsiderable
number of strangers at St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill, at the