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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 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: TABLE II.Shewing the Annual T3irt.li Rate and Death Rate; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1884 and 10 previous years.

TABLE II.

Shewing the Annual T3irt.li Rate and Death Rate; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1884 and 10 previous years.

The Year.Birth Rate per 1,000 of the Population.Death Rate per 1,000 of the Population.Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Registered Births.Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Total Deaths.Deaths of Children under 5 years ; per 1.000 of Total Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions ; per 1,000 of Total Deaths.
188425.815.1156261392166*
188325.215.5143229375184
188226.116.2146236413149
188126.916.6146236391160
188028.517.8156249422128
187930.218.8150241407133
187829.820.2178263458132
187730.717.3132246396135
187630319.5171266450117
187580.919.2153246401121
187431.419.4174282440131
Average of 10 years 1874—1883.29.018.0154249415139

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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 1874—83 the deaths at Brompton Consumption Hospital are included as compensation
for an unknown number of deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions.
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