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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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Table: TABLE II.Shewing the Annual Birth Kate and Death Rate ; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1888 and ten preceding years.

TABLE II.

Shewing the Annual Birth Kate and Death Rate ; Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths, for the year 1888 and ten preceding years.

The Year.Birth Rate per 1,000 of the PopulationDeath 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.
183821.315.9160214381208*
188722.516.4172237393212
188623.915.9154230373219
188523.416.1161236392202
188425.815.1156261392166
188325.215.5143229375184
188226.116.2146236413149
188126.916.6146236391160
188028.517.8156249422128
187930.218.8150241407133
187829.8202178263458132
Average of 10 years, 1878—1887.26.216.8156241401168

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*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 1878-83 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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