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THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1887.
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 December 31st, 1887; the sanitary
statistics being for the statutory year ended March 25th,
1888.
The vital statistics are calculated upon an estimated population
of 175,000, a total arrived at on data furnished by the census of
1881, corrected as far as practicable by the number of inhabited
houses.
The deaths registered were 2,872, being 116 above the
number in 1886, and 104 below the decennial average, corrected
for increase of population.
The death rate (16.4 per 1,000) was 0.5 above the rate in
1886, and 0.5 below the decennial average. It was 3.2 below
the rate in London, as a whole (19.6), and 2.4 below the rate in
England and Wales (18.8).
But while the death rate in Kensington shows an increase
of 0'5 per 1,000, as compared with 1886, the death rate in
London shows a decrease of 0.3 from that in 1886, which was
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