Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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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. |
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1889 | 20.8 | 13.5 | 132 | 203 | 327 | 2 35 |
1888 | 21.3 | 15.9 | 160 | 214 | 381 | 208 |
1887 | 22.5 | 16.4 | 172 | 237 | 393 | 212 |
1886 | 23.9 | 15.9 | 154 | 230 | 373 | 219 |
1885 | 23.4 | 16.1 | 161 | 236 | 392 | 202 |
1884 | 25.8 | 15.1 | 156 | 261 | 392 | 166 |
1883 | 25.2 | 15.5 | 143 | 229 | 375 | 184 |
1882 | 26.1 | 16.2 | 146 | 230 | 413 | 149 |
1881 | 26.9 | 16.6 | 146 | 236 | 391 | 160 |
1880 | 28.5 | 18.7 | 156 | 249 | 422 | 128 |
Average of 10 years, 1880—1889. | 24.4 | 15.9 | 152 | 233 | 385 | 186 |
*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. |