TABLE IV.

Showing Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to Population, and to 1,000 Deaths, 1874, viz.—

Diseases.	Total Deaths.	Deaths per 1000 of Population.	Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths.
1. Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases	388	2.8	144
2. Pulmonary (other than Phthisis)	554	4.0	208
3. Tubercular	326	2.3	121
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants (under 5).	209	1.5	77
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants (under 5).	161	1.1	59

NOTES.

1. Includes Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fever and Diarrhœa.

3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.

4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy, Debility, want of Breast Milk, and Premature Birth.

5. Includes Hydrocephalus, Infantile Meningitis, Convulsions and Teething.

TABLE V.

Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 years 1864–1873, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, and the number in 1874, &c.

Disease.	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	Annual Average 10 years, 1864–1873.	Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1864–1873.	1874	Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1874.
Smallpox	5	18	10	29	4	6	8	120	68	1	26.9	12.5	121	45
Measles	100	52	40	19	84	27	70	64	43	38	53.7	25.3	32	11.8
Scarlet Fever	90	31	28	35	170	106	198	95	29	10	79.2	37.1	26	9.6
Diphtheria	Not separately registered.					9	14	11	14	11	5.9	2.7
Whooping Cough	56	37	28	68	34	71	55	72	77	44	54.2	25.3	45	16.7
Fever	60	77	33	46	52	42	46	48	42	41	48.7	22.8	52	19.3
Diarrhœa	63	104	112	78	113	108	154	129	110	145	111.6	52.3	112	41.6
Total, Kensington	374	319	251	275	457	369	545	539	383	290	380.2	178.0	388	144
Total, London.	16,029	14,272	14,761	11,660	14,925	17,413	16,476	19,455	12,699	11,385	14,907	198	11,230	147
Total. England & Wales 1862–1871 [60]	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1862–71	1872	1872	1872
	73,220	98,490	96,279	92,030	82,692	72,587	97,352	90,380	100,497	103,801	90,732	188	91,743	188

TABLE VI.

Inspectors’ Report of the Sanitary Work completed in the year ended March 25th, 1875.

Sub-Districts.	No. of Complaints received during the year.	No. of Houses and Premises, &c., inspected.	Results of Inspection.			House Drains.		Privies and W.C.’s.			Dust Bins.		Water Supply.		Miscellaneous.
			Orders issued for Sanitary Amendments of Houses and Premises.	Houses and Premises, &c., Cleansed, Repaired and Whitewashed.	Houses Disinfected after Infectious Diseases.	Repaired, Cleansed, &c.	Trapped or Ventilated.	Repaired, Cleansed, &c.	Supplied with Water.	New provided.	New provided.	Repaired, Covered, &c.	Cisterns (new) erected.	Cisterns Cleansed, Repaired and Covered.	No. of Lodging Houses registered under 35th Clause of Sanitary Acts, 1866. [62]	No. of Dust Complaints received and attended to.	Removal of accumulations of Dung, Stagnant Water, Animal and other Refuse.	Removal of Animals improperly kept.	Regularly Inspected			Other Proceedings, e.g. Legal Proceedings.
																			Bakehouses.	Licensed Cowhouses.	Licensed Slaughterhouses.
North.	820	3229	818	567	40	207	76	163	69	.4	20	25	5	38	...	2560	64	46	60	18	32	82
South.	662	4057	664	496	28	235	59	178	53	2	11	19	3	37	...	3331	51	12	48	18	22	18
Total.	1482	7286	1477	1063	68	442	135	341	122	6	31	44	8	75	...	5891	115	58	108	36	54	100

TABLE VIa.

Summary of Monthly Returns of Sanitary Work performed by the Inspectors.

Date of Report.	Houses Inspected.		Mews Inspected.		Slaughter		Cowsheds Inspected.		Bakehouses Inspected.		Offensive		Sanitary Orders issued.		Letters &c. Received re Dust		Complaints of non-removal of Dust.		Orders issued for the removal of Dust.
	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South	North	South
May 6, 1874	388	532	48	72	11	14	13	14	15	8	9	0	65	88	136	258	15	95	302	601
June 3 „	360	475	42	61	7	16	19	14	14	23	11	0	61	31	161	222	14	64	294	528
July 1 „	416	520	58	75	18	14	12	10	14	9	10	1	39	86	208	193	26	42	312	335
July 29 „	314	337	48	69	16	8	14	14	13	12	16	0	81	32	187	189	31	36	254	360
Aug. 20 „	219	336	31	74	6	13	3	10	9	19	7	0	37	26	57	88	9	21	87	180
Sept. 23 „	189	216	22	47	11	9	14	8	10	11	4	0	42	35	69	84	12	10	95	106
Oct. 21 „	176	240	32	60	42	32	31	32	9	7	9	0	53	42	109	91	5	6	172	209
Nov. 18 „	225	364	36	62	14	7	12	9	13	16	10	2	48	61	150	121	22	19	210	231
Dec. 16 „	238	285	48	65	9	3	11	8	10	7	13	2	71	80	214	186	46	63	307	377
Jan. 13, 1875	185	202	30	37	10	6	11	9	16	12	3	0	59	32	345	372	69	66	565	635
Feb. 10 „	207	198	36	43	12	8	9	9	12	11	13	0	70	72	393	446	51	67	553	839
Mar. 10 „	186	214	24	22	8	7	9	6	12	10	14	0	67	55	293	622	18	96	392	1021
April 7 „	126	138	16	14	8	7	5	9	12	12	8	0	63	42	238	459	39	68	325	887
Totals.	3229	4057	471	701	172	144	163	152	159	157	127	7	756	682	2560	3331	357	653	3868	6309

Showing the Death rate per 1,000 living; the annual rate of Mortality per 1,000 living from seven Zymotic Diseases; and the proportion of Deaths from these Diseases to the total Deaths in Kensington and in all London in 1874, and in the ten years, 1864–73.

The Year.	Deaths per 1000 living.		Total Deaths from seven Zymotic diseases, Kensington.	Annual rate of Mortality per 1,000 living from seven Zymotic diseases.		Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths from seven Zymotic diseases.
	Kensington.	London.		Kensington.	London.	Kensington.	London.
1864	21.4	26.5	374	4.3	5.4	204	204
1865	19.0	24.5	319	3.5	4.7	185	196
1866	20.4	26.4	259	2.6	4.8	133	185
1867	19.0	23.0	276	2.7	3.7	142	166
1868	21.0	23.6	457	4.2	4.7	208	200
1869	20.2	24.6	369	3.3	5.5	164	227
1870	21.2	24.1	545	4.6	5.1	222	213
1871	19.1	24.7	542	4.4	6.0	233	242
1872	17.0	21.4	390	3.0	3.8	181	179
1873	18.3	22.5	290	2.1	3.3	119	149
AVERAGE OF TEN YEARS	19.6	24.1	382	3.4	4.7	179	196
1874	19.5	22.5	388	2.8	3.3	144	147

TABLE VIII.

Comparative Analysis of the Mortality in all London and in Kensington, in 53 weeks, ended 2nd January, 1875.

LOCALITY.	Annual Death Rate per 1000 Living from all causes.	Annual Death Rate per 1000 Living from principal Zymotic Diseases.	Per centage of Deaths under 1 year to Births Registered.	Per Centage of Deaths to Total Deaths.
				Under 1 year of age.	At 60 years of age and upwards.	From 7 Zymotic Diseases.	From Violence.	Registered upon information of the Coroner (Inquests.)	Registered in large Public Institutions.
London	22.5	3.3	15.5	24.6	21.6	14.7	3.6	7.2	17.2
Kensington	19.5	2.8	17.5	28.5	21.7	14.4	1.8	6.4	13.1

TABLE IX.

Shewing the Principal Localities in which of the chief Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1874.

Name of Street or Place.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping Cough.	FEVER.			Diarrhœa.	Total.
					Typhus.	Enteric.	Simple Contind.
Absolom Road	l								1
Admiral Place and Terrace	2					1			3
Abingdon Road		2						1	3
Acklam Road					1	1			2
Brown’s Buildings	2								2
Blenheim Crescent								3	3
Blechynden Street	6			2			1		9
Bramley Road	2			2				1	5
Bomore Road	2								2
Boundary Villas		1							1
„ Cottages		2							2
Bangor Street		1						1	2
Cromwell Road (West)						1			1
Cornwall Road	1					1		1	3
Child Street and Place	3								3
Coleherne Road			1						1
Clarendon Road		1	2						2
Crescent Street							1	2	3
Campden Street	3	1				1		1	5
„ Hill Road			1						2
Calverley Street				1				1	2
Dartmoor Street		1					1		2
Devonshire Terrace, Kensington						1			1
Dulford Street		2							2
Edge Terrace	1			1				1	3
Earl’s Court Road					1			2	3
Faraday Road		1	l						1
Fulham Road						1			1
Gordon Cottages			1						1
Golborne Road	1							4	5
Glo’ster Terrace, Kensington					1				1
Grange (The)					1				1
Holland Street			1	1					2
Hurstway Street	4							1	5
Holland Villas Road		1							1
Ifield Road	l	2						1	4
James’ Street, Kensington					1				1
Kenilworth Terrace	1	1							2
Kensington High Street			1						1
Kensington Park Road			1					1	2
„ „ Gardens Mews		1							1
Ladbroke Grove Road	2		1			3			6
Lancaster Road	2	1				1	1	2	7
Lockton Street	1							3
Lonsdale Road	1	2		1					4
„ Mews		1							1
Montpelier Street						1			1
Manchester Street	2	2							4
„ Road					1			2	3
New Street	2			1				2	5
Neville Street						1		1	2
Powis Square						l			1
Prince’s Gate						l			1
„ Mews	2								2
Pembroke Place	2			1				1	4
Pelham Crescent		1							1
Peel Street	2				1	1	1		5
Portland Road	3			2				2	7
Portobello Road	7	1	2					5	15
Phœnix Place					1				1
Phillimore Place (Lower)									1
Royal Crescent		4							4
Rillington Place			1	1					2
Raddington Road	2								2
Swinbroke Road					1			2	3
Silchester Road		1						1	2
„ Terrace	2								2
South Street, St. Mark’s								2	2
St. James Street, Notting Hill	2		1					2	5
St. Katherine’s Road	1			2			1	4	8
St. Clement’s Road	1				1			2	4
Stanley Gardens Mews			1						1
Southam Street	11					1	1	2	15
Stoneleigh Street							2		2
Sheffield Gardens			1						1
St. Ann’s Road	2			1					3
St. Luke’s Mews			1						1
Seymour Place						1			1
Thistle Grove		2		1				1	4
Thomas Mews, Place and Street Notting Dale	4		2					1	7
Testerton Street	1	1		2				1	5
Tabernacle Terrace	2	1							3
Talbot Mews	1							2	3
Talbot Grove	2		1	1	1			1	6
Warwick Place				1					1
Wornington Road						1			1
Wilby Mews						1			1
Warwick Road	1			2				4	7
Walmer Road	4			2			1	3	10
William Street, Norlands	2							2	4
„ Notting Hill	2								2
Workhouse	4					2		3	9

There were no fatal cases of Small Pox.

There was a single case of Measles in each of 32 other Streets.

In addition to the cases of Diarrhœa here referred to five cases of Simple or English and Infantile Cholera were registered, viz., one each in Child Street, Ladbroke Road, Pembroke Square, Portland Road, and St. Philip’s Terrace.

TABLE X.
PARISH OF SAINT MARY ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON.

Return respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were Registered during the year 1874.

DATE.	Registration Sub-Districts comprised in Vaccination Officer’s District.	Number of Births returned in Birth List Sheets.	Number of these Births duly entered in Columns 10, 11, and 13 of the Vaccination Register (Birth List Sheets) viz.:—				Number of these Births which are not entered in the Vaccination Register, on account, as shown by Report Book) of
			Column 10. Successfully Vaccination.	Column 11.		Column 13. Dead. Un-vaccinated.	Postponement by Medical Certificate.	Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprized.	Removal to places unknown, or which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found.	Cases still under proceedings by summons and otherwise.
				Insusceptible of Successful Vaccination.	Had Small-pox.
	1	2	3	4	5	6	8	9	10
1st January to 30th June.	Kensington Town	1833	1520	12		209	20	8	64
	Brompton	400	338	1		35	6	4	16
1st July to 31st Dec.	Kensington Town	1708	1380	9		178	40	12	82	7
	Brompton	416	350	1		42	8	3	10	2
	Totals	4357	3588	23		464	74	27	172	9

TABLE XI.
LICENSED SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

SOUTH SANITARY DISTRICT, (20.)
LOCALITY.	LICENSEE.
Glo’ster Grove East	Mrs. Nutkins
11, Church Street, Kensington	Mr. Stimpson
11, Peel Place, Silver Street	„ Andrews
The Mall, Silver Street	„ Wright
57, Fulham Road	„ Turner
356, Ditto	„ Smith
37, Brompton Road	„ Shackell
121, Ditto	„ Cox
183, Ditto	„ French
12, New Street, Brompton	„ Lidstone
7, Montpelier Street, Brompton	„ Hall
60, Kensington High Street	„ English
Phillimore Mews	„ Clayton
1, Newland Place	„ Sandford
15, High Street, Notting Hill	„ Short
133, Ditto ditto	„ Candy
6, Hope Terrace, Notting Hill	„ Beall
35, Earl’s Court Road	„ Matson
Ditto ditto	„ Collins
Warwick Road	„ Fazan
NORTH SANITARY DISTRICT, (28.)
13, Archer Mews	Mr. H. Rush
Ditto	„ Ward
20, Bolton Mews	Messrs. Smith and Son
195, Clarendon Road	Mr. J. W. Rush
142, Ditto ditto	„ Rutland
10, Edenham Mews	„ Gibson
Tavistock Mews, Portobello Road	„ Hughes
8, Vernon Mews, Portobello Road	„ Young
196, Portobello Road	„ Scoles
Ledbury Mews	„ French
Lonsdale Mews	„ Olney
50, Prince’s Road, Notting Hill	„ Parratt
98, Ditto ditto	„ Roser
10, Prince’s Mews, Notting Hill	„ Cole
10, Prince’s Road Mews, ditto	„ Coles
Portland Road ditto	„ Colley
41, Prince’s Place ditto	„ Pickworth
23, Norfolk Terrace	„ Matthews
61, Silchester Road	„ Matthews
5, James Street, Potteries	„ Van
Mary Place, Potteries	„ Nind
7, Thomas Street, Potteries	„ Squire
27, Ditto ditto	„ Squire
Royal Crescent Mews	„ Blackburn
Ditto ditto	„ Macpherson
Ditto ditto	„ Down
140, Walmer Road	„ Seaton
144, Ditto	„ Baker

TABLE XII.
LICENSED COW SHEDS.

SOUTH SANITARY DISTRICT. (16.)
LOCALITY.	LICENSEE.
5, Glos’ter Grove East	Mrs. Reeves
7, Silver Street	Mr. Mackenzie
7, The Mall, Notting Hill.	„ Edwards
Ditto ditto	„ Draper
Fulham Road (St. Mark’s Place)	„ Starr
Holland Park Farm	Messrs. Tunks and Tisdall
Newland Terrace	Mr. Harman
Gore Lane	„ Thompson
Earl’s Court Road (Pembroke Place)	„ Harman
Ditto ditto	„ Jones
Ditto ditto	„ Clark
Warwick Road	„ Pool
South End, Kensington	„ Woolhouse
Ditto ditto	„ Lunn
Stratford Road	„ Clark
Addison Cottage, Lorne Gardens	„ Lyons
Thistle Grove	„ Burgar
NORTH SANITARY DISTRICT, (17.)
191, Portobello Road	Mr. D. Hughes
207, ditto	Aylesbury Dairy Company
Ditto (Angola Mews)	Mr. Johnson
Wornington Mews	„ Jones
Ledbury Mews	„ Boon
Ditto	„ Liddiard
Notting Barn Farm	„ Liddiard
James’ Street, Potteries	„ Arnsby
5, Ditto ditto	„ Van
21, Thomas Street, Potteries	„ Bidgood
12, Blechynden Mews	„ White
14, ditto	„ Copperwheat
15, ditto	„ Cockman
9, East Road Mews	„ Stephen Keen
165, Walmer Road	„ Fredk. Keen
10, Talbot Mews	„ Hornsby
3 & 4, Archer Mews	„ Skingle

TABLE XIII.
QUARTERLY RETURN
Of the Chief Gas Examiner.

Cannel Gas.

Results of the Daily Testings of the Gas supplied by the Gas Light and Coke Company to the Testing Station, at 123, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, during the months of January, February, and March, 1874.

January.
	Illuminating Power in Standard Sperm Candles.	Amount of Impurity.
		Sulphuretted Hydrogen.	Ammonia per 100 feet, grains.	Sulphur per 100 feet, grains.
1	20.7	None	7.4	23 0
2	21.1	„	5.0	23.3
3	20.3	„	4.6	...
5	20.2	„	7.5	23.7
6	22.2	„	6.4	23.1
7	22.4	„	4.6	22.1
8	22.4	„	4.2	22.5
9	22.7	„	3.8	21.4
10	21.9	„	3.2	21.8
12	22.7	„	...	22.3
13	22.2	„	4.6	22.6
14	22.2	„	5.0	18.4
15	22 3	„	5.2	15.1
16	22.1	„	5.2	20.3
17	20.2	„	3.2	19.7
19	20.7	„	2.0	21.0
20	21.0	„	4.0	22.4
21	Not received.
22	19.7	„	4.6	22.8
23	20 8	„	2.4	23.3
24	19.6	„	2.2	24.2
26	22 2	„	2.4	24.0
27	Not received.
28	20.2	„	4.0	23.6
29	20.9	„	3.0	17.3
30	21.0	„	2.6	24.3
31	20.5	„	1.7	24.0
Mean	21.28	„	4.11	21.92
February.
2	20.7	None	1.8	21.0
3	20.5	„	1.6	20.8
4	22.1	„	1.8	19.2
5	20.9	„	1.2	18 8
6	21.1	„	0.6	19.1
7	21.7	„	1.2	...
9	21.7	„	1.2	...
10	21.2	„	1.4	...
11	20.7	„	1.2	...
12	21.7	„	0.8	...
13	22.1	„	0.6	20.6
14	22.0	„	1.0	20 9
16	22.8	„	1.3	19.1
17	22.9	„	1.6	18.8
18	22.5	„	1.2	18.8
19	22.5	„	1.2	15.7
20	21.1	„	1.0	15.4
21	Not received.
23	22.6	„	0.6	16.1
24	21.3	„	2.0	16.4
25	21.3	„	0.6	16.8
26	22.6	„	1.0	16.0
27	23.3	„	1.2	19.2
28	21.1	„	0.0	19.6
Mean	21.76		1.15	18.46
March.
2	21.4	None	2.4	19.2
3	21.0	„	0.2	10 4
4	21.9	„	0.8	13.0
5	21.3	„	1.0	14.5
6	22.8	„	1.0	15.1
7	21.9	„	1.0	15.1
9	22.1	„	0.8	15.3
10	21.0	„	1.4	15.3
11	21.4	„	0.0	12.9
12	20 4	„	1.0	14.3
13	20.9	„	0.6	15.1
14	21.0	„	0.6	16.4
16	21.1	„	0.4	17.7
17	21 6	„	1.2	17.1
18	21.5	„	2.0	17.2
19	21.4	„	0.8	17.5
20	21.2	„	0.5	17.3
21	21.8	„	1.0	17.3
23	21.9	„	...	...
24	21.2	„	...	...
25	21.7	„	...	...
26	21 4	„	...	...
27	21.0	„	0.8	...
28	21.4	„	0.6	15.5
30	21.1	„	0.8	15.7
31	22.9	„	0.0	16.0
Mean	21.47	„	0.86	15.63