Report on the health, sanitary condition, &c. of Kensington for the four weeks, May 17th to June 13th, being the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th weeks of the registration year, 1896.

  • Kensington (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
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[1896?]
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Credit: Report on the health, sanitary condition, &c. of Kensington for the four weeks, May 17th to June 13th, being the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th weeks of the registration year, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    KEN 4 No. VI., 1896. REPORT on the Health, Sanitary Condition, &c. OF KENSINGTON. For the Four Week ft, May 11th to June A3 th, being the list, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Weeks of the Registration Year, 1896. by T. ORME DUDFIELD, M.D., MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. Public Health Department, Town Hall, Kensington, W., June 16 th, 1896. Gentlemen, 1. I have to report that 282 births (males 148, females 134), and 205 deaths (males 90, females 115), were registered in the four weeks ended 13th June. After making due allowance for increase of population, the births were 13 below, and the deaths 5 above the numbers registered in the corresponding weeks in the previous ten years, 1886-95. The births were equivalent to an annual rate of 21.6 per 1,000 persons living, or 1.4 per 1,000 below the decennial average (23.0). The deaths were equivalent to an annual rate of 15.7 per 1,000, or 0.4 per 1,000 above the decennial average (15.3). The rate in the successive weeks was 15.6, 15.0, 19.3, and 12.8. The death-rate in the Metropolis was 17.1 per 1,000; 1.4 above the rate in Kensington, and 0.6 below the decennial average (17.7). Eighty-eight of the deaths of Kensington parishioners were of children under 5 years of age, including 45 under 1 year. Forty-three persons died at 60 and upwards. Thirty-four deaths were caused by the diseases of the respiratory organs, including bronchitis 19, and pneumonia 11. The deaths from phthisis were 19, from diseases of the heart, 12, and from tubercular or scrofulous diseases of children under 5 years of age, 5.