[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish].
- Kensington (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
- Date:
- [1897]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![55 Fever 5, from Simple Continued Fever 13, anil from Enteric Fever 591—and 79 below the corrected decennial average (688). The death-rate was 0.14 per 1,000 persons living, and 015 below the average rate in the ten years immediately preceding. The corrected notifications of these diseases were, Typhus, 6; Simple Continued Fever, 102; and Enteric Fever 3,189. DIARRHŒA. Diarrhœa was the cause of 61 deaths, against 98, 56, and 118, in the preceding three years successively: 55 in the Town sub-district, and 6 in Brompton; the corrected decennial average being 88. All of the deaths, save 4, were of children under five years of age, including 50 under one year. The deaths in London from this cause were 3,223, and 101 above the corrected decennial average (3,121). The death-rate was 0'72 per 1,000 persons living, and slightly in excess of the average in the preceding ten years, which had been 0 70 per 1,000. INFLUENZA. Influenza was not markedly prevalent, only twenty deaths therefrom having been registered in Kensington during the year, against 115 in 1895. Of these deaths 15 occurred in the Town sub-district, and 5 in Brompton. The deaths in London from this cause were 496,* and 543 below the the corrected decennial average. Other Diseases of the Zymotic Class.—Thus far I have dealt with the seven principal diseases of the zymotic class, which, with Cholera and Influenza, comprise the maladies which in table III. (appendix) go to make up Orders 1 and 2 (Miasmatic and Diarrhoea] Diseases) of Class 1 in the Registrar-General's classification, viz., Special Febrile or Zymotic Diseases. * This number is considerably smaller than in any year since 1890, the first year of the epidemic in London. The deaths, moreover, did not exceed 26 per cent. of the average annual number in the six years ending with 1895.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18239997_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
