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THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1866.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
The vital statistics in the following report are for the
registration year ended January 1st, 1887, and the sanitary
statistics are for the parochial year ended March 25th, 1887.
The vital statistics are calculated upon an estimated population
of 173,500, a total arrived at on data furnished by the census of
1881, corrected as far as practicable by the number of inhabited
houses at the middle of 1886.
The deaths registered were 2,756, being 12 below the actual
number in 1885, and 259 below the decennial average, corrected
for increase of population.
The death rate (15.9 per 1,000) was 0.2 below the rate in
1885, and 1.4 below the decennial average. It was 4.0 below the
rate in London, as a whole (19.9), and 3.4 below the rate in
England and Wales (19.3).
But while the death rate in Kensington shows a decrease of
0.2 per 1,000, as compared with 1885, the death rate in London
shows an increase of 0.2 above that in 1885, which was the lowest,
on record. The rate in England and Wales (19.3) shows a rise of
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