Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the four weeks, October 11th to November 7th, 1903...

  • Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
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[1903]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the four weeks, October 11th to November 7th, 1903... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    162 from tubercular or scrofulous diseases of children under 5 rears of age, 5. Localised Birth and Death-Rates. —The subjoined table shows the number of births and deaths, and the birth-rate and the death rate, in the Borough, as a whole, and in the registration Sub-districts, the Parliamentary Divisions, and the several Wards:- Locality. Population. Births in the four weeks Birth Rate. Deaths in the four weeks Death Rate 178,000 270 19.7 The Borough 184 13.4 Sub-districts:— Kensington Town 129,020 224 22.6 153 15.4 Brompton 48,980 46 12.2 31 8.2 Parliamentary Divisions: — North Kensington 91,770 198 28.0 119 16.9 South Kensington 86,230 72 10.9 65 9.8 Wards:- St. Charles 22,120 58 34.1 31 18.2 59 26,520 28.9 27 13.2 Golborne 23,650 45 Norland 24.7 39 21.4 19,480 36 Pembridge 24.0 22 14.7 Holland 21 20,560 19 12.0 13.3 8.6 Earl's Court 18,190 17 12.1 12 Queen's Gate 14,380 4 3.6 9 8.1 13.8 13 9.0 Redcliffe 18,840 20 14,260 12 10.9 10 Brompton 9.1 2. —Zymotic Diseases. -The deaths from the principal diseases of the zymotic class were 14, and 10 below the corrected decennial average number. In the Metropolis, as a whole, the deaths from these diseases were 575, and 129 below the corrected average. Measles.- There was no death from measles,as compared with 5, 2, and 2, in the three preceding four-weekly periods respectively, In the Metropolis, as a whole, the deaths from this cause were 68.