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Kensington 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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It may be here stated, (the figures having been accidentally omitted at page 11), that the death-rate per 1,000 persons living, at different periods of life, was as follows;—
| Under five years of age | 65.4 | |
| Five and under | 15 | 3.1 |
| Fifteen „ „ | 25 | 23 |
| Twenty-five „ | 35 | 5.4 |
| Thirty-five „ | 45 | 1.1 |
| Forty-five „ | 55 | 17.0 |
| Fifty-five „ | 65 | 35.5 |
| Sixty-five ,, | 75 | 68.1 |
| Seventy-five „ | 85 | 130.6 |
| Eighty-five and upwards | 279.4 | |
The number of persons enumerated at different ageperiods,
at the Census of 1891, will be found in Table II.A, in
the Appendix.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The only "large public institution" within the Parish
in which we are directly interested, is the Parish Infirmary
and Workhouse, situated in the Town sub-district. There
are several minor public, or quasi-public institutions; but,
with one exception, they do not furnish occasion for special
remark. The excepted institution is St. Joseph's House,
Portobello Road, Notting Hill—a Roman Catholic Home for
aged poor persons, of both sexes, brought from various parts,
largely from Ireland: but the Registrar General does not
class it as a "public institution." The deaths of nonparishioners
at the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill (409),
and at the Brompton Consumption Hospital (164), are excluded
from our statistics, but will furnish occasion for a few remarks
later on. The deaths of parishioners registered at the Parish
Infirmary and Workhouse (433), at the Brompton Consumption
Hospital (5), and at outlying institutions, &c. (249),
were 687, or 23.8 per-cent. on total deaths, the per-centage
proportion of deaths in public institutions in the Metropolis
generally, being 25 4.
The Parish Infirmary and Workhouse.—I am
indebted to Mr. H. Percy Potter, Medical Superintendent of
the Infirmary and Medical Officer to the Workhouse, for the