Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1901
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APPENDIX I.
(Vide page 15.)
TABLE VI.
The Year. | Estimated Population.1 | No. of Inhabited Houses.† | Marriages. | Registered Births. | Total, all Ages.‡ | Deaths. | At Public Institutions. § | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under One Year. | Under Five Years. | |||||||
1901 | 177,000 | 23,000 | 1,651 | 3,602 | 2,650 | 581 | 876 | 801 |
1900 | 173,000 | 22,800 | 1,543 | 3,586 | 2,698 | 641 | 877 | 764 |
1899 | 172,400 | 22,750 | 1,693 | 3,590 | 3,021 | 642 | 932 | 942 |
1898 | 172,000 | 22,700 | 1,648 | 3,633 | 2,798 | 655 | 1,039 | 782 |
1897 | 170,700 | 22,669 | 1,681 | 8,683 | 2,667 | 609 | 912 | 839 |
1896 | 170,000 | 22,576 | 1,706 | 3,717 | 2,891 | 656 | 1,111 | 817 |
1895 | 169,300 | 22,483 | 1,455 | 3,621 | 2,748 | 624 | 951 | 762 |
1894 | 168,600 | 22,390 | 1,537 | 3,665 | 2,623 | 636 | 1,022 | 749 |
1893 | 167,900 | 22,297 | 1,540 | 3,661 | 2,916 | 625 | 965 | 740 |
1892 | 167,200 | 22,204 | 1,584 | 3,718 | 2,882 | 587 | 972 | 687 |
1891 | 166,500 | 22,084 | 1,569 | 3,847 | 3,066 | 633 | 968 | 773 |
Average, 10 years 1891.1900. | 169,760 | — | 1,595 | 3,672 | 2,831 | 630 | 974 | 785 |
Notes.—Census Population in 1861, 70,108; in 1871,120,299; in 1881,163,151; in 1891, 166,308; in 1896,170,465 ; in
1901, 176,628.
Average Number of Persons to each house at Census: in 1861, 7.4 ; in 1871, 7.6 ; in 1881, 8.1; in 1891, 7.53; in 1901,
7.7.
Area of Borough, 2,291 acres. Number of persons to an acre (1901) 77.
* For statistical purposes the population is estimated to the middle of the year, on the basis of the rate of increase
in the preceding inter.censal period, checked by the number of inhabited houses, and by the average number of persons per
house, as ascertained at the last census.
† The data are somewhat unreliable. See page 3.
‡ Inclusive of the deaths of parishioners at public institutions without the Borough, but exclusive of the deaths of
non.parishioners at public institutions within the Borough.
§ Viz.: At the Borough infirmary and outlying public institutions, including the Asylums Board Hospitals.
** In 53 weeks.