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Kensington 1916
Annual report (abridged) of the Medical Officer of Health 1916
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VITAL STATISTICS.
Population. —To meet the diminution and abnormal constitution of the population caused by
the war, the Registrar-General has estimated the population of Kensington in 1916 as 165,535 for
the purpose of calculating the birth rate, and as 15'2,]44 for the calculation of death rates.
Table A.
| District. | Population. | Births, Deaths and Rates per 1,000. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. | B. | Births. | Rate. | Deaths | Rate. | |
| The Borough | 152,144 | 165,535 | 3,027 | 18.3 | 2,337 | 15.4 |
| North Kensington | 77,787 | 84,633 | 2,090 | 24.7 | 1,346 | 17.3 |
| South Kensington | 74,357 | 80,902 | 865 | 10.7 | 884 | 11.8 |
| St. Charles | 20,075 | 21,842 | 567 | 26.0 | 317 | 15.8 |
| Golborne | 22,574 | 24,562 | 708 | 28.8 | 423 | 18.7 |
| Norland | 18,707 | 20,353 | 516 | 25.4 | 350 | 18.7 |
| Pembridge | 16,431 | 17,876 | 299 | 16.7 | 256 | 15.6 |
| Holland | 17,890 | 19,466 | 230 | 11.8 | 228 | 12.7 |
| Earl's Court | 15,555 | 16,924 | 219 | 12.9 | 212 | 13.6 |
| Queen's Gate | 12,614 | 13,724 | 89 | 6.5 | 99 | 7.8 |
| Redcliffe | 16,865 | 18,349 | 217 | 11.8 | 245 | 14.5 |
| Brompton | 11,433 | 12,439 | 110 | 8.8 | 100 | 8.6 |
| Unknown | – | – | 72 | 107 | ||
Dividing the two population's given for the Borough in 1916 by the Census population in 1911,
which was 172,317, the following factors will be obtained, namely, .9606 and .883. The populations
for the various districts in the Borough have been in each case arrived at by multiplying the census
population of the district by the second factor to obtain the death rate population shown in the
first column of the table, headed " D," and by the first factor, .9606, to obtain the birth rate
population in the second column, which is headed " B."
Births—The number of births registered was 3,027, after correction for inward and outward transfers. Distributed according to sex and legitimacy the births were as follows:—
| Male. | Female. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 1,450 | 1,378 | 2,828 |
| Illegitimate | 99 | 100 | 199 |
| Total | 1,549 | 1,478 | 3,027 |
The birth rate for the Borough was 18.3 per ],000 as compared with a rate of 20.0 in the
decennium 1901-10.
The number of births and birth rates for the Borough and its constituent districts have been
shown in Table A. In four years before the war the illegitimate births numbered 172 (1911),183,
163, and 151 (1914). The increase to 199 in the present year is accordingly only an increase of 16
above the figure for the year 1912.