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VITAL STATISTICS.
The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington as constituted under the London Government Act,
1899, covers an area of 2,291 acres, and is co-extensive with the Civil Parish and Registration
District of the same name. The line of demarcation formed by Holland Park Avenue, High
Street, Notting Hill Gate and the Bayswater Road divides the Borough into approximately equal
halves, described in previous years and in this Report as North and South Kensington respectively.
The Borough is further subdivided into eight wards. South Kensington includes the wards of
Holland, Earl's Court, Queen's Gate, Redcliffe and Brompton, and is co-extensive with the South
Kensington Parliamentary Division. North Kensington, containing the wards of St. Charles,
Golborne, Norland and Pembridge, is not co-terminous with the Parliamentary Division of the
same name, in that it extends northwards to include an area of 100 acres with a population of
3,500 persons which is still allotted, for parliamentary purposes only, to Chelsea. The rateable
value of the Borough is £2,447,399.
Population.—The population is estimated to have numbered 181,500 in the middle of the
year 1909, an estimate which assumes a loss to the Borough by excess of emigration over immigration
of 432 inhabitants. The natural increase by excess of births over deaths was 932. The subjoined
summary table represents the age and sex distribution of the population as ascertained at the
census of 1901:—
Population at
all Ages,
March 31st, 1901.
Under Five
Years.
5 to 15.
15 to 25.
25 to 35.
35 to 45.
45 to 55.
55 to 65.
65 to 75.
75 to 85.
85 to 95.
95 and
upwards.
All Ages.
Females 107.544 7,092 13,305 24,769 23,482 15,377 10,953 6,985 3,818 1,515 243 5 107,544 Females
Males 69,084 7,056 12,595 13,461 11,491 9,440 7,220 4,586 2,306 820 107 2 69,084 Males
Excess of
Females
38,460 36 710 11,308 11,991 5,937 3,733 2,399 1,512 695 136 3 38,460
Excess of
Females
Total of
both sexes
176,628 14,148 25,900 38,230 34,973 24,817 18,173 11,571 6,124 2,335 350 7 176,628
Total of
both sexes

In regard to the social status of the population it may be said that the majority of the inhabitants
of North Kensington live in poverty ; in South Kensington persons living in poverty constitute
only a small fraction of the population. In so far as the figures are available, the population, the
number of inhabited houses and the rateable value of property since 1801 have been shown in the
annual reports for 1908 and previous years and need not be given again in this report.
Marriages.—The marriages celebrated during the year numbered 1574. The number of
marriages celebrated annually and the annual marriage rate since 1856 were given in the annual
report for 1908, Appendix II., Table A, page 60.