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Prefatory Remarks on Death-rate—Parochial, Metropolitan,
and National, in 1883 9
Registration District, "Kensington:" What it includes 11
,, Sub-Districts ; " Kensington Town " and
"Brompton" 11
Wards, Division of Parish into 12
Kensington, Population and Rateable Value of ; 1801-83 12
Vital Statistics, in 1883 ; Summary of 13
Zymotic Diseases, General Remarks on the " Seven Principal " 17
,, ,, Number of deaths from the „ „ 20
„ „ Death-rate from : in Kensington, in London,
and other large Towns, and in England and
Wales 20
,, ,, In Kensington; Monthly Return of deathsfrom 21
Measles 21
Wnooping-Cough 22
Scarlet Fever 22
Diphtheria 24
Fever 25
„ Typhus 25
„ „ Meningitis from over-pressure at school, mistaken
for 26
„ Enteric, Local outbreak of 27
„ Simple continued 27
Diarrhœa 27
Small-pox 28
Western District (late Fulham) Hospital 29
Fulham Hospital Case 29