London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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The fatal diseases may be classified as follows:—
| Diseases of the brain (including convulsions, 9, and spasm of the glottis, in infants, 2) | 23 |
| Diseases of the heart (38), and of the lungs (19) | 57 |
| Other visceral diseases | 5 |
| Tubercular diseases | 3 |
| Wasting diseases of infants | 4 |
| ''Syncope" | 2 |
| Hemorrhage (in parturient women) | 2 |
| Alcoholism, Hemorrhage, Teething, and Congenital malformation (one each) | 4 |
| 100 | |
| The violent deaths were classified as follows: — | |
| Accident: | |
| Suffocation (in bed) of infants under one year | 7 |
| Choked with food (female set. 53), and suffocated by a fall from bed (female set. 60) | 2 |
| Burn (4), Scald (2) | |
| Drowning - | 2 |
| " Poisoned (by over-dose of chloral | |
| hydrate" 2) | 3 |
| Cut, stab | 1 |
| Fractures and Contusions (32), viz.— | |
| Run over | 5 |
| Falls, under a variety of | |
| circumstances | 23 |
| Crushed and suffocated by fall of a house in course of erection | 2 |
| Other injuries | 2 |
| Forward | 53 |