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From the foregoing figures we learn that the population in 1902 was more than twenty times
as large as in the first year of the nineteenth century, and the rateable value of property nearly
thirty times as great as in 1823, the first year in respect to which I possess information. Since
1856, the rateable value has increased more than seven -fold, the increase in the last 31 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 and Inhabited Houses in 1902.—The population of the borough estimated
to the middle of the year, was 177,500. It comprised approximately 69,425 males and 108,075
females; excess of females 38,650.* In the Town sub-district (estimated population 128,660), the
males numbered about 53,715, the females 74,945; excess of females 21,230. In the Brompton
sub-district (estimated population 48,840), there were about 15,710 males and 33,130 females;
excess of females 17,420. This population of 177,500 persons was in occupation of about 23,000
houses, equal to 7.7 persons to a house. For the purposes of this report, the population of the
borough, the sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the wards, will be taken to be as follows:—
The Borough 177,500
Sub-districts:—
Kensington Town 128,660
Brompton 48,840
Parliamentary Divisions:—
North Kensington 91,510
South Kensington 85,990
Wards:-
St. Charles 22,060
North Golborne 26,440
Kensington Norland 23,580
Pembridge 19,430
Holland 20,500
Earl's Court 18,140
South Queen's Gate 14,340
Kensington Redcliffe 18,790
Brompton 14,220
MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.
The marriages in the year were 1,703 compared with 1,693, 1,543, and 1,651, in the three
preceding years respectively. Of these marriages there were celebrated—
By the Church (69.7 per cent. of total marriages) 1,187
At Roman Catholic places of worship 126
At other Nonconformist places of worship 63
At the Jewish Synagogue 8
At the Superintendent-Registrar's Office 319
The marriage-rate (i.e., the number of persons married to 1,000 living) was 19.2, compared
with 19.6, 17.8, and 18.7, in the three preceding years The marriage-rate in England and Wales
was 15.8 per 1,000, compared with 16.5, 16.0, and 15.9 in the three preceding years, and an
average of 15.6 in the ten years 1892-1901. The rate in London was 17.8 per 1,000, compared with
18.6, 18.0, and 17.6, in the three preceding years.
During the ten years, April 1st, 1891, to March 31st, 1901, the inter-censal period, 15,822
marriages were registered in the Borough.
Table A, Appendix 11 (page 152), gives the number of marriages and the marriage-rate in
the borough for each of the thirty-two years (1871-1902) during my tenure of office.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The births registered were 3,488, or 3,422 after correction for the 53rd week; viz., males,
1,711 and females 1,711; the numbers being, in the Town sub-district (which includes the Borough
Infirmary), 2,900, and in the Brompton sub-district, 522.
The births were, after correction, 369 below the corrected decennial average (3,791), 161 of
them being of illegitimate children. They were also fewer by 114 than in the year 1901; and fewer
by 553 (or 619 after correction) than the number in 1872 (4,041), when the population (127,400) was
50,100 less than in 1902.
* In England and Wales in 1901 the proportion of females to males in the population was as 107 to 100; in London as 112
to 100; in Kensington as 156 to 100.