Transcribed from the 1875 J. Wakeham edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Public domain cover] THE ANNUAL REPORT ON THE HEALTH OF THE Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, KENSINGTON, DURING THE YEAR 1874. BY T. ORME DUDFIELD, M.D., MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. * * * * * KENSINGTON: J. WAKEHAM, PRINTER, 4, BEDFORD TERRACE, CHURCH STREET. 1875. CONTENTS. PAGE Prefatory Remarks 5–13 Mortality, higher rate of, in 1874, accounted for 5 Death Rate, Metropolitan and Local 6 Kensington “Registration District”—what it comprises 6 „ Parish of, division into Wards 6 „ Town and Brompton “Sub-registration Districts,” 7 contrast in the vital statistics of Sexes, relative rate of mortality in the 7 Sub-districts, character of the prevalent fatal diseases in 8 the Kensington Town, greater fatality of Zymotic, Tubercular 9 and Lung diseases in Deaths, (whole Parish) numbers of, from classes and orders 9 of diseases Death Rate and Mean Temperature, monthly record of 10 Scarlet Fever, outbreaks of, supposed to depend on 10 Contamination of Milk Dysentery and Diarrhœa, supposed to be due to the use of 11 the Milk of diseased Cows Dairies, undesirable Multiplication of 13 Population 13 Males and Females, ages of, living at the Census, 1871 13 „ great disproportion in the relative numbers of 13 Parish, area of, density of Population, number of inhabited 14 houses, &c. „ growth of Population: increase in Rateable Value of 14 Property Marriages and Marriage-rate 14 Births and Birth-rate 15 Deaths and Death-rates of sexes and in Sub-districts 15 Death Rates at all Ages, the true method of calculating 17 „ Special causes of 17 Zymotic Diseases, deaths from 17 Measles, Epidemic of 18 Scarlet Fever 18