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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being for the Year 1871.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
In my Annual Report for 1870, I stated the population of
the Parish, ascertained at the Census taken April 2nd, 1871, to be
121,100—the number originally published, shortly after the completion
of the enumeration. This total, as it turned out, included
866 persons, inhabitants of St. George's Workhouse, in Marloes
Road, an extra-parochial portion of the Parish of St. Margaret,
Westminster. The official Return of the Registrar-General shows
the population to have numbered 120,234, a difference too small
to render necessary any correction of the statistics in my former
report, based on the higher figure above-stated. This population
comprised, in round numbers, 49,000 males and 71,234 females: the
excess of females over males being no fewer than 22,234. The
Parish is divided, for registration purposes, into two sub-districts
of very unequal size. The Kensington Town Sub-district has an
area of 1497 acres ; its population was 91,583, giving a density of
G1 persons per acre. The Brompton Sub-district has an area of
693 acres; its population numbered 28,651, equivalent to 41
persons per acre. In both Districts, and especially in the nothern
part of the Parish, considerable tracts of land, in the aggregate
probably 500 acres, remain as yet unbuilt upon. The decennial increase
of population was 39,673 in the Town District, equal to
76'5 per cent.; and 10,453 in the Brompton District, equal to
57'5 per cent. Total increase, 50,126, viz., from 70,108 to
120,234. (The increase in all London during the 10 years was
450,000 = 16 1 per cent.) Twenty-five thousand nine hundred and
sixty-six separate families were enumerated (averaging 4'6 persons