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From the foregoing figures we learn that the population in 1900 was more than twentytimes
as large as in the first year of the century, and the rateable value of property more than
twenty-eight 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 increase in the last 29 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 and Inhabited Houses in 1900.—The population of the borough, estimated
to the middle of the year, was 173,000. It comprised, approximately, 68,347 males and 104,653
females; excess of females, 36,306. In the Town sub-district (estimated population 124,300), the
males numbered about 51,634, the females 72,666; excess of females, 21,032. In the Brompton
sub-district (estimated population 48,700) there were about 16,713 males and 31,987 females;
excess of females 15,274. This population of 173,000 persons was in occupation of about 22,800
houses, equal to 7.6 persons to a house on an average. In the poorer and more densely populated
parts the number of persons to a house is much in excess of the average. The same remark is
applicable in the case of flats which, though groups of houses in effect, are reckoned as single
houses in census enumerations. For the purposes of this report, the population of the borough, the
sub-districts, the parliamentary divisions, and the sanitary districts, will be taken to be as follows:—
The Borough 173,000
Sub-districts:—
Kensington Town 124,300
Brompton 48,700
Parliamentary Divisions:—
North Kensington 88,100
South Kensington 84,900
Sanitary Districts:—
North 33,590
North-east 30,510
North-west 17,000
Central 27,390
South-east 32,350
South-west 32,160