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From the foregoing figures we learn that in 1898, the
population was twenty times as large as in the first year of the
century, and that the rateable value of property was more
than twenty-eight times as great as in 1823, the first year in
respect to which I possess information. Since 1856, the rate—
able value has increased nearly seven-fold ; the mere increase
in the last 27 years being nearly four-fold the total in 1856 ;
since which date the population and the number of inhabited
houses have increased three-fold.
POPULATION IN 1898.
For the purposes of the present report the population of
the parish, as a whole, at the middle of the year, and that of the
sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the sanitary
districts, will be taken to be as follows :—
The Parish 172,000
Sub-Districts;—
Kensington Town 123,600
Brompton 48,400
Parliamentary Divisions: —
North Kensington 87,500
South Kensington 84,500
Sanitary Districts ;—
North 33,350
North-East 30,340
North-West 16,850
Central 27,240
South-East 32,200
South-West 32,020