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intensity was in January, in 1891 it was in May and June,
in 1892 it was in January and February, the mortality having
risen almost suddenly in the first week of the year, having
reached its maximum in the third week, and then gradually
subsided."
The statement of the Registrar-General respecting the
epidemic in London as a whole, is generally applicable to the
outbreak in this Parish. But the mortality which attained its
maximum in London, in 1891, did not attain its maximum in
Kensington until 1892—the deaths in the three successive
years having been 39, 113 and 155. Of the 155 deaths in
1892, as many as 106 were registered in the first four weeks—
84 of them in the Town sub-district and 22 in Brompton—
irrespective of 13 in which influenza was noted as a secondary
cause of death. Some of the deaths were of non-parishioners,
including 10 at St. Joseph's House, and 4 at the Marylebone
Infirmary. Two were of parishioners at outlying public
institutions far away from the Parish. The deaths of
parishioners in the parish were 93, viz: 72 in the Town subdistrict
and 21 in Brompton: 53 males and 40 females. Fiftyfour
of the deaths, or 58 per-cent., occurred at ages over 60
years. It is noteworthy that in 8 cases only, out of the 93,
was influenza returned as the sole cause of death; diseases of
the lungs were associated with it in 78 cases, other visceral
diseases in 7 cases. Fifty of the deaths occurred in houses
situated to the north of Uxbridge Road, 11 in houses between
that road and Kensington Road, and 32 in houses south of
Kensington Road. All classes of the population suffered, the
well-to-do most of all, seeing that 42 of the deaths were of
persons or in families described as belonging to the gentle
and professional classes. Only 16 deaths occurred among the
classes engaged in trade, whilst 35 were distributed amongst
the classes engaged in laborious occupations. In these same
four weeks the unprecedented number of 198 deaths were
attributed to diseases of the respiratory system, including
bronchitis 151, and pneumonia 27, of which, there can be no