Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905.

  • Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
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[1906]
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Credit: Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    12 Table A, Appendix II. (page 129) gives the number of deaths under one year in Kensington, and the proportion to 1,000 registered births (the infantile mortality rate ), for each of the thirty-five years, 1871-1905, during my tenure of office. The deaths of children over one year and under five years of age were 259 ; the deaths under five years, therefore, were 757, compared with 790, 768 and 756 in the preceding three years, being equal to 219 per 1,000 deaths ; the relative proportion in London, as a whole, being 196. The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age, 67, 79 and 63, in the preceding three years respectively, were 94 in 1905, of which 84 were registered in the Town sub-district, and 10 in Brompton. These deaths were equal to 59.9 per cent. on the 157 births registered as illegitimate. Of the 94 children 25 only survived the first year of life. Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards,.there were 873 deaths, as compared with 956, 803 and 883 in the preceding three years respectively. These deaths were equivalent to 348 per 1,000 deaths at all ages. The relative proportion in all London was 291 per 1,000. District Rates of Mortality.—The table at page 13 shows (inter alia) the death-rate in the sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the wards, for the year, and also for each of the thirteen four-weekly periods covered by the monthly reports. As usual the rate was far higher in the Town sub-district (15.2 per 1,000) than in the Brompton sub-district (10.9), and the same observation applies to the parliamentary division of North Kensington (17.0), compared with the southern division of the borough (10.9). In three of the wards in North Kensington, viz., St. Charles (16.5), Golborne, (17.8) and Norland (20.0), the death-rate exceeded that of the borough as a whole (14.0 per 1,000). The rate in Pembridge Ward (12.7) and in each of the wards in South Kensington was more or less largely below the rate for the borough as a whole. In the Notting-dale special area (estimated population 4,000) comprised in Norland Ward, the death-rate was 32.0 per 1,000, compared with 20 0 in the ward as a whole. The zymotic death-rate was 3'7 per 1,000 persons living, and more than double that of the borough as a whole (1.38). The deaths at all ages were 9 more than the births; the deaths of children under one year of age being in the proportion of 345 per 1,000 registered births. The main facts with respect to vital and mortal statistics of this distressful area, in 1905, which generally are of a more favourable character than in any one of the preceding eight years, are summarised below. NOTTING-DALE SPECIAL AREA. vital and mortal statistics, 1905. {The corresponding statistics for the preceding nine years are added for comparison.) Population 1905. 1904. 1903. 1902. 1901. 1900. 1899. 1898. 1897. 1896. (Estimated) 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 Births 119 113 136 98 112 113 120 117 130 118 Birth-rate 29·7 28·2 34·0 24·5 28·0 28·2 30·0 29·3 32·5 29·5 per 1,000 per sons living. Deaths 128 145 159 185 194 163 236 182 223 187 Death-rate 32·0 36·2 39·7 45·5 48·5 40·7 59·0 45·5 55·7 46·8 per 1,000 per sons living. Infantile Mortality. Deaths under one year of age 41 31 46 41 46 54 61 49 56 51 Death-rate 345 274 338 427 411 478 508 419 431 432 per 1,000 regis tered births. Zymotic Diseases. Deaths from the Seven Principal 15 13 13 14 37 18 12 22 25 30 Death-rate 3·7 3·2 3·2 3·5 9·2 4·5 3·0 5·5 6·3 7·5 per 1,000 per sons living. Causes of Death.—In 9 cases Diarrhea; in 3 cases Whooping Cough; in 2 cases Measles, and in 1 case Enteric Fever. There was no death from scarlet fever or diphtheria. The general death rate was the lowest on record.
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