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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 14
Kensington, Population and Rateable value of; 1801-1888 14
Vital Statistics, 1887, Summary of 14
Zymotic Diseases, General Remarks on the " Seven Principal " 21
„ „ Number of Deaths from the ,, ,, 28
,, „ Teath-rate from ; in Kensington, in London and
other large Towns, and in England and Wales 23
„ „ Monthly Returns of Deaths from, in Kensington 24
Small-Pox, in Kensington and London 24
Measles 26
Scarlet Fever 27
„ „ Illustrations of Modes of Spread of 28
,, „ The Epidemic of,in London 30
,, ,, Statistical Returns, relative to 32
„ ,, Tabular Annual Return of cases of, 1879-87 33
,, „ Tabular Monthly Return of cases of, 1879-87 34
„ „ Alleged dissemination of, by Milk of Diseased Cows 35
„ „ Views of Dr. Buchanan, Mr. Power, and Dr. Klein 35
„ „ „ (Divergent) of Professors Brown and Axe 37
„ „ ,, . „ of Piofessor Crookshank 38
„ „ Precautions against spread of, by Milk 39
Diphtheria 40
„ Need of Hospital Accommodation for Sufferers from 41
Whooping-Cough 42
Fever 43
Diarrhcea 43
Cholera, Precautionary Measures against 44