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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 IV.

Table: Shewing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1883, from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 deaths from all causes ; also the number of deaths of [nfants 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.

Shewing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1883, from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 deaths from all causes ; also the number of deaths of [nfants 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 Diseases2511 .596
2. Pulmonary Diseases5903.5225
3. Principal Tubercular Diseases3602.1133
Division 11. Infants under One Year).Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Births.Deaths per 1000 of Total Deaths under One Year.
4. Wasting Diseases. .15837262
5. Convulsive Diseases8322138

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NOTES.
1. Includes Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough,
Typhus Fever, Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever, Simple Continued Fever
and Diarrhoea. Twenty of the deaths occurred in Hospitals outside the
Parish.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, Rickets, and Tabes.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy, Debility, Want of Breast Miik, and
ture 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.)