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Prefatory Remarks on Death-rate—Parochial; Metropolitan ;
Urban; and National 1
Registration District Kensington 5
„ Sub-Districts: "Kensington Town,"andBrompton 5
Wards, Division of Parish into 6
Kensington, Population and Rateable value of ; 1801-1889 7
Vital Statistics, 1889, Summary of 7
Zymotic Diseases, General Remarks on the " Seven Principal " 12
„ „ Number of deaths from the „ „ in 1889 14
„ ,, Death-rate from ; in Kensington ; in London and
other large Towns, and in England and Wales 15
„ „ Monthly Return of Deaths from, in Kensington ... 16
Small-Pox, Low rate of Mortality from, in London, of late years : only
one fatal case (" Doubtful ") in 1889 16
Measles 16
Whooping-cough 17
Scarlet fever 18
„ „ In London 19
„ „ Increased use of the Hospitals for Isolation of Cases of 20
,, „ Cases of, recorded in Kensington, in 1879-88 and in 1889 21
„ „ Alleged Dissemination of, by the Milk of Diseased Cows 23
Diphtheria 26
„ Epidemic of 26
„ In London 29
„ Hospital Accommodation provided for 30
Fever 31
DIarrhŒa 32
Metropolitan Asylums Board, The Work and Proceedings of the 33
„ ., ,, The Annual Report of the Chairman 33
„ , „ The Annual Report of the Statistical
Committee 37