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The births in North Kensington, i.e., the part of the Borough north of Holland Park Avenue
and High Street, Notting Hill, were 2,481; the birth-rate 26.9 per 1,000 living, and 0.2 below
the metropolitan rate.
The births in South Kensington, i.e., the part of the borough south of the streets named,
were 977; the birth-rate 11.3, and 15.8 per 1,000 below the metropolitan rate.
The birth-rate in the several wards—after distribution of the births at the borough infirmary—
was as follows:—
North Kensington—
St. Charles 604 births = 27.2
Golborne 891 births = 33.4
Norland 628 births = 26.4
Pembridge 358 births = 18.3
South Kensington— per 1,000 persons living.
Holland 276 births = 13.3
Earl's Court 234 births = 12.8
Queen's Gate 121 births = 8.4
Redcliffe 231 births = 12.2
Brompton 115 births = 8.0
The births exceeded the deaths by 951: in the Town sub-district they were 978 more in
number than the deaths, whilst in the Brompton sub-district the deaths exceeded the births to the
number of 27.
In North Kensington the births exceeded the deaths by 916 ; in South Kensington to the
number of 35 only.
The excess of births over deaths in the several wards was as follows:—
(St. Charles 236 South Kensington Holland 36
North Golborne 417 Queen's Gate 2
Kensington. Norland 153 Earls Court 16
Pembridge 110
The deaths exceeded the births by 7 in Redcliffe Ward, and by 12 in Brompton Ward.
The registered births of illegitimate children in the borough as a whole were 157—one more
than in 1904. Of these births 145 were registered in the Town sub-district, which includes the
workhouse, at which institution out of 121 live births (males 59, females 62) 76 were illegitimate.
In the borough generally the illegitimate births formed 4'5 per cent, of total births as compared
with rates of 4.6, 4.2, and 4.5 in the preceding three years.