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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 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: TABLE II.Shewing the Annual Birth-rate and Death-rate; Death-rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions, in 1000 Deaths, for the year 1890, and ten preceding years.

TABLE II.

Shewing the Annual Birth-rate and Death-rate; Death-rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions, in 1000 Deaths, for the year 1890, and ten preceding years.

The Year.Birth-rate per 1000 of the Population.Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1000 of'Registered Births.Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1000 of Total Deaths.Deaths of Children under 5 years; per 1000 of Total Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions; per 1000 of Total Deaths.
189021.516.1168221371207*
188920.813.51322033272 35
188821.315.9160214381208
188722.516.4172237393212
188623.915.9154230373219
188523.416.1161236392202
188425.815.1156261392166
188325.215.5143229375184
188226.116.2146230413149
188126.916.6146236391160
188028.518.7156249422128
Average of 10 years, 1880—1889.24.415.9152233385186
*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 1880-83 inclusive, the deaths at Brompton Consumption Hospital are included as compensation for an unknown number of deaths of Parishioners at outlying Public Institutions.