[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington] page 72

Kensington 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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THE RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY NOTIFICATION
OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
With the view of ascertaining the probable results of a system
of compulsory notification, I have made an investigation of the results
of voluntary notification as practised in this parish. Taking
the statistics of mortality for twenty.four years, in respect of the
“principal diseases of the zymotic class,” I compared the number
of deaths in the first half.period (1859.70), before I entered upon
the duties of Medical Officer, with the number in the second
half.period (1871.82), during which we have had the advantage of
hospital accommodation. The results of the investigation are set
out in the following Tables.

Table: First period of twelve years (1859.70); without notification and without hospitals:—Number of Deaths Annually.

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First period of twelve years (1859.70); without notification and without hospitals:—

Number of Deaths Annually.

Diseases	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	Totals.
Small Pox	11	18	2	0	49	5	18	10	29	4	6	8	160
Measles	42	29	53	30	83	100	52	40	19	84	27	70	629
Scarlet Fever	53	86	57	110	89	90	31	28	35	170	106	198	1053
Diphtheria	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	9	14	23
Whooping Cough	11	56	37	54	22	56	37	28	68	34	71	55	529
Fever	17	25	32	51	54	60	77	33	46	52	42	46	535
Diarrhoea	72	35	66	24	54	63	104	112	78	113	108	154	983
Totals	206	249	247	269	351	374	319	251	275	457	369	545	3912
Yearly Average

Table: Second period of twelve years (1871.82); with voluntary notification and with hospitals:—Number of Deaths Annually.

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Second period of twelve years (1871.82); with voluntary notification and with hospitals:—

Number of Deaths Annually.

Diseases.	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	Totals.
Small Pox	120	68	1	0	0	8	84	24	24	11	55	0	395
Measles	64	43	38	121	23	128	54	53	60	75	67	77	803
Scarlet Fever	95	29	10	32	83	59	31	77	51	105	36	62	670
Diphtheria	11	14	11	26	23	17	10	20	26	22	8	25	213
Whooping Cough	72	77	44	45	107	124	34	185	93	95	85	119	1080
Fever	48	42	41	52	29	36	27	33	23	33	31	32	427
Diarrhoea	129	110	145	112	107	126	99	181	71	128	101	61	1370
Totals	539	383	290	388	372	498	339	573	348	469	383	376	4958
Yearly Average 413

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The average population in the first period of twelve years (1859.70), was 90,000,
and in the second period (1871.82), 147,300.

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Kensington 1886

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Table: First period of twelve years (1859.70); without notification and without hospitals:—Number of Deaths Annually.

Table: Second period of twelve years (1871.82); with voluntary notification and with hospitals:—Number of Deaths Annually.

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