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Kensington 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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APPENDIX II.
(Vide page 13.)

Table: TABLE VI. (Table I. in preceding Annual Reports.) Showing Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, in 1900, and in the ten preceding years : gross numbers.

TABLE VI. (Table I. in preceding Annual Reports.) Showing Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, in 1900, and in the ten preceding years : gross numbers.

The Year.Estimated Population.1No. of Inhabited Houses.fMarriages.Registered Births.Deaths.
Total, all Ages.tUnder One Year.Under Five Years.At Public Institutions. §
1900173,00022,8001,5433,5862,698641877764
1899172,40022,7501,6933,5903,021642932942
1898172,00022,7001,6483,6332,7986551,039782
1897170,70022,6691,6818,6832,667609912889
1896170,00022,5761,7063,7172,8916561,111817
1895169,30022,4881,4558,6212,748624951762
1894168,60022,3901,5378,6652,6236361,022749
1898167,90022,2971,5403,6612,916625965740
1892167,20022,2041,5843,7182,882587972687
1891166,50022,0841,5693,8473,066633968773
1890166,08021,800** 1,511** 3,864** 2,9516511,095612
Average, 10 years 1890-1899.169,068—1,5928,6992,856631996770

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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 Borough, 2,190 acres. Number of persons to an acre (1900) 79.
* 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.
f The data are somewhat unreliable.
J Inclusive of the deaths of parishioners at public institutions without the Borough, but exclusive of the deaths of
non-parishioners at public institutions within the Borough.
§ Viz.: At the Borough infirmary and outlying public institutions, including the Asylums Board Hospitals.
** In 53 weets.