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Kensington 1898

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1898

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Table: TABLE 1. Showing Population, Inhabited Houses., Marriages, Births, in 1898 and in the preceding ten years: gross number.

TABLE 1. Showing Population, Inhabited Houses., Marriages, Births, in 1898 and in the preceding ten years: gross number.

The Year.Estimated Population1No. of Inhabited Houses, †Marriages.Registered Births.Deaths.
Total,all Ages‡Under One Year.Under Five Years.In Public Institutions.§
1898172.00022,7001,6483,6332,7986551,039782
1897170,70022,6691,6813,6832,667609912839
1896170,00022,576** 1,706** 3,717** 2,8916561,111817
1895169,30022,4831,4553,6212,748624951762
1894168,60022,3901,5373,6652,6236361,022749
1893167,90022,2971,5403 6612,916625965740
1892167,20022,2041,5843,7182,882587972687
1891166,50022,0841,5693,8473,066633968773
1890166,08021,800** 1,511** 3,864** 2,9516511,095612
1889165,76021,7001,4913,6982,412489789570
1888165,45021,6001,4973,7762,8256041,077590
Average, 10 years 1888-97.167,749—1,5573,7252,798611986714

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Notes.—Census Population in 1861, 70,108; in 1871, 120,299: in 1881, 163,151 :
in 1891, 166,308; in 1896, 170,465.
Average Number of Persons to each house at Census : in 1861, 7.4 ; in 1871, 7.6 ; in
1881, 8.1 ; in 1891, 7.53.
Area of Parish, 2,190 acres. Number of persons to an acre (1898) 78.5.
*For statistical purposes the population is estimated to the middle of the year, on
the basis of the rate of increase in the preceding inter-censal period, checked by the
number of inhabited houses, and by the average number of persons per house, as
ascertained at the last census.
† The data are somewhat unreliable. The census number, which includes houses
occupied only by caretakers, is given for 1891. The number in the years 1892 98, has
been calculated upon the assumption of an average number of 7-53 persons to each
house as ascertained at the census in 1891.
X Inclusive of the deaths of parishioners at public institutions without the Parish, but
exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions within the Parish.
§ Viz. : At the Parish Infirmary, &c., and outlying public institutions, including the
Asylums Board Hospitals.
** In 53 weeks.