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to an household), inhabiting 15,712 houses, = 7.6 persons to a
house, the proportion in the Metropolis generally being 7.8.
Yery few districts of the Metropolis show so large a relative
increase of population in the ten years 1861-71—none so large an
absolute increase, the 50,000 additional inhabitants of Kensington
accounting for a tenth part of the increase of the Metropolitan
population during the decenniad. The growth of the Parish has
been continuous during the present century, but the increase was
much more rapid during the second half of the period.
In 1801 the Parish contained a population of 8,556 persons,
which, at the next Census in 1821, had increased to 14,428. At
the Census of 1841, and ever afterwards, the population of the two
Sub-districts was separately enumerated, with the following
results:—

The decennial increase per cent, is shown in

Table C, in the Appendix, compiled by Mr. C. R. Barnes,
Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Town District, furnishes
some interesting details of the distribution of the population at
the Census enumeration.
At the middle of the year the estimated population was 123,110 ;
males 50,200, females 72,910. This number will be assumed to
be correct and employed for calculation purposes. The increase
during the year, viz: from July, 1870, was about 8000, due in
part to the natural increase of population by the excess of births
over deaths, (1539); the large remainder being the balance of
immigration over emigration.
BIRTHS.
_ Three thousand eight hundred and four births were registered,
viz : 3,094 in the Town district, and 710 in the Brompton district.
The males born numbered 1,952 ; the females 1,852. The total
births were equivalent to an annual rate of nearly 31 (30.9) for
every 1,000 persons living, a rate considerably below that of the
Metropolis generally, which was 34.5 per 1,000, and which may