Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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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 1887 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. |
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1887 | 22.5 | 164 | 172 | 237 | 393 | 2121 |
1886 | 23.9 | 15.9 | 154 | 230 | 373 | 219 |
1885 | 23.4 | 16.1 | 161 | 236 | 392 | 202 |
1884 | 25.8 | 15.1 | 156 | 261 | 392 | 166 |
1883 | 25.2 | 15.5 | 143 | 229 | 375 | 184 |
1882 | 26.1 | 16.2 | 146 | 236 | 413 | 149 |
1881 | 26.9 | 16.6 | 146 | 236 | 391 | 160 |
1880 | 28.5 | 17.8 | 156 | 249 | 422 | 128 |
1879 | 30.2 | 18.8 | 150 | 241 | 407 | 133 |
1878 | 29.8 | 20.2 | 178 | 263 | 458 | 132 |
1877 | 30.7 | 17.3 | 132 | 246 | 396 | 135 |
Average o f 10 years 1877—1886. | 27.0 | 16.9 | 152 | 242 | 400 | 160 |
* 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 1877.83 the deaths at Brompton Consumption Hospital are included as
compensation for an unknown number of deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions.
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