Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1903
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APPENDIX I.
TABLE-VI.
The Year. | Estimated Population.1 | No. of Inhabited Houses.† | Marriages. | Registered Births. | Deaths. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total, all Ages.‡ | Under One Year. | Under Five Years | At Public Institutions.§ | |||||
1903 | 178,000 | 23,000 | 1,623 | 3,565 | 2,455 | 510 | 768 | 772 |
1902 | 177,500 | 23,000 | ** 1,703 | ** 3,488 | ** 2,746 | 515 | 805 | 832 |
1901 | 177,000 | 23,000 | 1,651 | 3,602 | 2,650 | 581 | 876 | 801 |
1900 | 173,000 | 22,800 | 1,543 | 3,586 | 2,698 | 641 | 877 | 764 |
1899 | 172,400 | 22,750 | 1,693 | 3,590 | 3,021 | 642 | 932 | 942 |
1898 | 172,000 | 22,700 | 1,648 | 3,633 | 2,798 | 655 | 1,039 | 782 |
1897 | 170,700 | 22,669 | 1,681 | 3,683 | 2,667 | 609 | 912 | 839 |
1896 | 170,000 | 22,576 | ** 1,706 | ** 3,717 | ** 2,891 | 656 | 1,111 | 817 |
1895 | 169,300 | 22,483 | 1,455 | 3,621 | 2,748 | 624 | 951 | 762 |
1894 | 168,600 | 22,390 | 1,537 | 3,665 | 2,623 | 636 | 1,022 | 749 |
1893 | 167,900 • | 22,297 | 1,540 | 3,661 | 2,916 | 625 | 965 | 740 |
Average 10 years 1893-1902. | 171,840 | — | 1,616 | 3,625 | 2,776 | 618 | 949 | 803 |
Notes.—Census Population in 1861, 70,108: in 1871,120,299; in 1881,163,151; in 1891, 166,308; in 1896 170, 465: in
1901,176,628
Average Number of Persons to each house at Census : in 1861, 7.4 ; in 1871, 7 6 ; in 1881, 81 : in 1891, 7.53; in 1901, 7. 7.
Area of Borough, 2,291 acres. Number of persons to an acre (1901) 77.
• For statistical purposes the population is estimated to the middle of the year, on the basis of the rate of increase in the
preceding inter-censal period, checked by the number of inhabited houses, and by the average number of persons per house as
ascertained at the last census.
† The data are somewhat unreliable.
J Inclusive of the deaths of parishioners at public institutions without the Borough, but exclusive of the deaths of nonparishioners
at public institutions within the Borough.
§ Viz.: At the Borough infirmary and outlying public institutions, including the Asylums Board Hospitals.
** In 53 weeks.