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class, including 66 that took place in the hospitals above referred
to, were only 339 as against 498 actually registered in the parish
in the previous year.
As usual, however, there was a great difference both in the general
and in the zymotic death-rate of the two registration sub-districts,
"Kensington Town" and "Brompton," and very much to the
advantage of the latter. The former district, hereinafter for
brevity called the " Town," comprises the whole of the parish north
of Kensington High Road, and a good slice south of that line. It
has an area of 1,497 acres and it had an estimated population
(at the middle of 1877) of 112,250. The "Brompton" area is
639 acres, and its estimated population was 38,750. The Town
sub-district includes important open spaces; viz., Holland Park,
Kensal Green Cemetery, and fields in the vicinity thereof in
which, however, the builder is now hard at work, apian setting out
five miles of new roads having been lately approved by your
Yestry. The Brompton sub-district, which has been covered
rapidly by new houses, many of them of a palatial character,
within the last few years, comprises within its boundaries the
West London or "Brompton" Cemetery.

ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The death-rate from the principal zymotic diseases was,
as already stated, very low in 1877, amounting to 2'2 per 1,000 living