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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 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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TABLE II.

Table: Shewing the Annual Birth Rate and Death Rate; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1883 and 10 years preceding.

Shewing the Annual Birth Rate and Death Rate; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1883 and 10 years preceding.

The YearBirth Rate per 1000 of the Population.Death Rate per 1000 of the Population.Deaths of Children under 1 year: per 1000 of Registered Births.Deaths of Children under 1 year: per 1000 of Total Deaths.Deaths of Children under 5 years : per 1000 of Total Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions : per 1000 of Total Deaths.
188325 215 5143229375184*
188226.116-2146236413149
188126.916.6146236391160
188028.517.8156249422128
187980.218.8150241407133
187829.820.2178263458132
187730.717.3132246396135
187630.319.5171266450117
187530.919.2153246401121
187431.419.4174282440131
187331.418.3156270402116
Average of 10 years 1873-1882.29.618.3156253418132

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* Includes deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions, but excludes deaths of non-parishioners at Brompton Consumption Hospital
and Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill. In the years 1873-82 the deaths at Brompton Consumption Hospital are included as compensation
for an unknown number of deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions.