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Kensington 1901
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1901
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Rateable Value.—The growth or development of the Borough during the last 78 years is evidenced by the subjoined table, Showing the increase in rateable value. The present total is about one-sixteenth of that of the Administrative County of London.
| Rateable Value of Property. | The Year. |
|---|---|
| £75,916 | 1823 |
| 93,397 | 1833 |
| 142,772 | 1843 |
| 257,103 | 1853 |
| 444,030 | 1863 |
| 975,046 | 1873 |
| 1,711,495 | 1883 |
| 2,037,221 | 1893 |
| £2,238,392 (October) | 1901 |
Population, Number of Inhabited Houses, and Rateable Value.—The following table, brought up to date, exhibits the growth of the borough since the Metropolis Local Management Act came into operation, in 1856 :—
| 1856. | 1901. | Increase in 45 years. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 57,000 | 177,000 | 120,000 |
| Number of Inhabited Houses | 7,600 | 23,000 | 15,400 |
| Rateable Value of Property | £308,000 | £2,238,392 | £1,930,392 |
The increase in all respects within the last thirty years, 1871-1901, the period over which my official experience extends, was very considerable, as the subjoined figures show:—
| 1871. | 1901. | Increase in 30 years. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 121,000 | 177,000 | 56,000 |
| Number of Inhabited Houses | 15,735 | 23,800 | 8,065 |
| Rateable Value | £935,720 | £2,238,392 | £1,302,672 |
From the foregoing figures we learn that the population in 1901 was more than twenty times
as large as in the first year of the nineteenth century, and the rateable value of property more than
twenty-eight times as great as in 1823, the first year in respect to which I possess information.
Since 1856, the rateable value has increased nearly seven-fold, the increase in the last 30 years
being nearly four-fold the total in 1856; since which date the population and the number of
inhabited houses have increased more than three-fold.
Population in 1901. For the purposes of the present report the population of the borough
and of its constituent parts—registration sub-districts, parliamentary divisions and wards—at the
middle of 1901, will be taken to be as follows:—
The Borough 177,000
Sub-districts:—
Kensington Town 128,300
Brompton 48,700
Parliamentary Divisions:—
North Kensington 91,250
South Kensington 85,750
Wards:-
St. Charles 22,000
Golborne 26,370
Norland 23,510
Pembridge 19,370
Holland 20,440
Earl's Court 18,090
Queen's Gate 14,300
Redcliffe 18,740
Brompton 14,180