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in 1891, comprised males, 36,252, and females, 46,381: excess
of females 10,129. In South Kensington the males
numbered 29,465, the females 54,210; excess of
females 24,745. In the parish, as a whole, the females outnumbered
the males by 34,874 persons. The subjoined table
contains an approximate statement of the population of the
seven sanitary districts, at the census of 1891 (after distribution
of the inmates of the parish infirmary and workhouse, and
deduction of non-parishioners at certain public institutions)
together with the number of separate families, and of tenements
of less than five rooms, and the number of inhabited
house 3 in each of the said districts.
Sanitary District.
Population.
No. of
Separate
Families.
No. of |
tenements of
less than
Five Rooms.
No. of
Inhabited
Houses.
North
6,793
5,503
2,866
30,705
4,798
North East
22,013
2,514
3,018
3,336
North-West (A)
13,087
1,984
1,936
3,669
North-West (B)
15,875
2,993
1,636
4,293
Central
20,179
2,023
2,997
32,374
6,354
South-East
1,979
5,105
6,710
South-West
30,667
4,478
3,104
164,900
35,953
22,084
Totals
20,052
I have only to add, on this subject, that the estimated population
of the parish at the middle of 1895 (167,600) includes an
increase of 1,300 persons since the census of 1891 was taken.
This estimated increase (325 per annum) would appear to be
not unreasonably high, seeing that the births in the five completed
years 1891-95, viz., 18,512, were 4,275 in excess of the