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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 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: TABLE II.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 1886 and ten preceding years.

TABLE II.

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 1886 and ten preceding 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.
1886.23.9159154230373219*
188523.416.1161236392202
188425.815.1156261392166
188325.215.5143229375184
188226.116.2146236413149
188126.916.6146236391160
188028.517.8156249422128
187930.218.8150241407133
187829.820.2178263458132
187730.717.3132246396135
187630.319.5171266450117
Average of 10 years 1876—1885.27.617.3153246409150

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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 1876-83 the deaths at Brompton Consumption Hospital are included as compensation
for an unknown number of deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions.