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POPULATION.
The table at page 5 shows the relative number of persons
of each sex, as ascertained at the census of 1891, grouped
according to age; (a) in the entire parish, (b) in the Kensington
Town sub-district, and (c) in the Brompton sub-district.
There is no later information as to age-distribution of the
population, nor will there be until the next census is taken in
1901.
The 166,308 persons comprised in the population in 1891,
were in occupation of about 22,000 houses or an average of
7"56 to each house. An error, somewhat widely disseminated,
that Kensington is almost wholly a parish of rich or well-todo
persons, may be corrected by a reference to the official
report of the census of 1891, from which we learn that 70,718
persons, or 42 5 per cent, of the population, were living in
20,052 tenements of less than five rooms. The 166,308
persons comprising the entire population of the parish at that
date, were in occupation of 35,953 tenements and certain
public institutions. No fewer than 6,398 of these "tenements"
consisted of a single room each ; these rooms being inhabited
by 13,655 persons. The two-roomed tenements were 6,965,
and their inhabitants numbered 26,020. The three-roomed
tenements were 4,115, and their inhabitants 18,119. The fourroomed
tenements were 2,574, and their inhabitants 12,924.
Stated in another way, it appears that 8.2 per cent, of the
parishioners lived in one-room tenements ; 15.6 per cent, lived
in two-room tenements ; 109 per cent, lived in three-room
tenements, and 7.8 per cent, in four-room tenements. In North
Kensington there were approximately 8.7 persons to a house ;
in South Kensington about 6.7. But many houses of eight
rooms, in North Kensington more particularly, contained, and
contain now, upwards of twenty persons to a house, and some
even more than thirty persons,