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the population. In 1895, it was 21.6 per 1000, and 1.5 below the
decennial average (231). The rate was, in the Town subdistrict,
25.6 per 1000 of the population, and in Brompton 11.7
per 1000. In the Town sub-district the births were 822 more
than the deaths; the excess of births over deaths in the
Brompton sub-district, was to the number of 52 only. The
births in North Kensington (as already defined at page 1),
were 2,398, the birth-rate 29.1 per 1000. The births were 654
more than the deaths (1,744). The births in South Kensington
were 1,223, the birth-rate 14 3 per 1000. The births were
only 219 more than the deaths (1,004).
The births in the seven sanitary districts (as defined at
page 2) and the birth-rate (approximately) were as follows:—
North District.—Births, 1,011 415 more than the deaths,
596) ; birth-rate, 32.5 per 1,000.
North-East District.—Births, 481 (128 more than the
deaths, 353); birth-rate 218 per 1,000.
North-West District (Division A). —Births, 322 (56 more
than the deaths, 266); birth-rate, 24.6 per 1.000.
North-West District (Division B).— Births, 584 (55 more
than the deaths, 529); birth-rate, 36.7 per 1,000.
Central District.—Births, 298 (31 more than the deaths,
267); birth-rate, 14'7 per 1,000.
South-East District.—Births, 309 (76 more than the deaths,
293); birth-rate, 11.3 per 1,000.
South-West District. —Births, 556 (112 more than the deaths,
444); birth-rate, 181 per 1,000.
The workhouse is in the South-West sanitary district. At
this institution there were 123 births which are included in
the 556, thus considerably raising the birth-rate of the district.
The registered births of illegitimate children in Kensington
were 180 (33 fewer than in 1894), viz., males 97, and females
83. Of these births 163 were registered in the Town sub-