[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough].

  • Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
Date:
[1937]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUMMARY OF STATISTICS for the Year 1936. Population (estimated) 176,100 Density of population per acre 76 Rateable value £3,334,408 Total. M. legitimate 1,997 1,058 Live births illegitimate 231 116 Still births 82 49 Deaths 2,201 995 Area of borough in acres 2,291 Number of marriages 2,077 Product of a Id. rate £13,893 F. 939 Birth rate 2.7 115 33 Rate per 1,000 total births 35 1,206 Death rate (after adjustment) 11.7 Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions 54% Deaths from puerperal causes:— Rate per 1,000 total Deaths (live and still) births. Puerperal sepsis 1 0.4 Other puerperal causes 1 0.4 Total 2 0.9 Death rate of infants under one year of age:— All infants per 1,000 births 73 Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 69 Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 104 Deaths from phthisis 105 Deaths from all forms of tuberculosis 123 Deaths from the zymotic diseases 97 Deaths from measles (all ages) 26 „ whooping cough (all ages) 13 „ diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 39 Phthisis death rate 0.59 Tuberculosis death rate 0.70 Zymotic death rate 0.55