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Kensington 1897
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1897
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From the foregoing figures we learn that in 1897 the
population was nearly 20 times as large as in the first year
of the century; and that the rateable value of property was
more than 27 times as great as in 1823, the first year in respect
to which I possess information. Since 1856, the rateable value
has increased nearly seven-fold; the mere increase in the last
26 years being nearly four-fold the total in 1856; since which
date the population and the number of inhabited houses have
increased nearly three-fold.
POPULATION IN 1897. For the purposes of the present report the population of the parish, as a whole, at the middle of 1897, and that of the sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, the sanitary districts, and the "Notting-dale" special area, will be taken to be as follows:—
| The Parish | 170,70 | |
| Sub-Districts:— | ||
| Kensington Town | 122,400 | |
| Brompton | 48,300 | |
| Parliamentary Divisions:— | ||
| North Kensington | 86,440 | |
| South Kensington | 84,260 | |
| Sanitary Districts:— | ||
| North | 32,850 | |
| North-East* | 30,140 | |
| North-West* | 16,450 | |
| "Special Area" | 4,000 | |
| Central* | 27,140 | |
| South-East | 32,140 | |
| South-West | 31,980 | |
* The figures in respect of the North-East, the North-West, and the Central
districts are not comparable with those for 1896, the boundaries of each of these
districts having been varied. This observation applies to all the statistics of
these districts throughout the report.