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Prefatory Remarks on Death-Rate—Parochial, Metropolitan, Urban,
and National 9
Registration District, "Kensington" 12
„ Sub-Districts: "Kensington Town," and "Brompton" 13
Wards, Division of Parish into 13
Kensington, Population and Rateable Value of; 1801-1887 14
Vital Statistics in 1886, Summary of 14
Zymotic Diseases, General Remarks on the "Seven Principal" 20
„ „ Number of Deaths from the „ „ 22
„ „ Death-rate from; in Kensington, in London, and
other large Towns, and in England and Wales 23
„ „ In Kensington : Monthly Returns of Deaths from 23
Small-Pox, in Kensington and Londobn 24
Measles 25
Scarlet Fever 26
„ „ Alleged dissemination of, by Milk of Diseased Cows 29
„ „ Views of Dr. Buchanan, Mr. Power, and Dr. Klein 30
„ „ „ (Divergent) of Professors Brown and Axe 32
Diphtheria 34
„ Need of Hospital Accommodation for Sufferers from 36
Whooping-Cough 37
Fever 38
Diarrhœa 38
Cholera: Precautionary Measures against 38
Hydrophobia: Rabies Order of 1886 39
Hospital Accommodation for Small-Pox 40
Action of Asylums Board to give effect to the recommendations
of the Hospitals Commission by providing
Ship and Camp Hospitals, &c. 40
„ Managers propose to erect Permanent Hospital at Darenth:
Local Government Board objects 40
„ Reports of Sub-committees of Asylums Board on the subject
of proposed permanent Hospital 42