Category: Health & Medicine

The Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, during the year 1874

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 vi...

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8. It should be of adequate size, and should not be used for any other purpose than that for which it is licensed, and particularly it should not be used as a stable, a lair, or...

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Falls 7 Barns 1 Drowned 4 Suffocation 16 Cut throat 2 Pistol shot 2 Hanging 2 Run over by railway train 1 Wilful Murder 4 “Accident,” “Violence” 2 Total 41

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I have already referred (p. 10, _ante_) to a curious outbreak of scarlet fever following on a dinner-party at South Kensington, and it may be here mentioned that a report of the...

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should, if possible, be so far associated with the mortuary as to enable one and the same person to have the charge of both establishments. Proceedings in respect of both are al...

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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 „ Par...

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In the first set of cases, seven in number, the symptoms were generally of a severe character. Three of the patients were young children, and the other four adults. The child fi...

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Month. Illuminating AMOUNT OF IMPURITY. Number of power in Examinations. Sperm Candles. Sulphuretted Ammonia per Sulphur per Hydrogen. 100 feet 100 feet Grains. Grains. January...

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JULY. Illuminating Power Amount of Impurity. in Standard Sperm Candles. Sulphuretted Ammonia per 100 Sulphur per Hydrogen. feet, grains. 100 feet, grains. 1 18.6 None 0.8 16.4 2...

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Diseases. Total Deaths. Deaths per 1000 Proportion of of Population. Deaths to 1000 Deaths. 1. Seven 388 2.8 144 Principal Zymotic Diseases 2. Pulmonary 554 4.0 208 (_other than...

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CAUSES OF DEATH. AGES. Total deaths Grand Total. SUB-DISTRICT. under Five. Under 1. 1 to 2. 2 to 5. 5 to 15. 15 to 25. 25 to 35. 35 to 45. 45 to 55. 55 to 65. 65 to 75. 75 to 85...

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Name of Measles. Scarlet Diphtheria. Whooping FEVER. Diarrhœa. Total. Street or Fever. Cough. Place. Typhus. Enteric. Simple Contind. Absolom l 1 Road Admiral 2 1 3 Place and Te...

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JANUARY. Illuminating Power in Amount of Impurity. Standard Sperm Candles. Sulphuretted Ammonia per 100 Sulphur per Hydrogen. feet, grains. 100 feet, grains. 1 20.7 None 7.4 23...