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Kensington 1913

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

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VITAL STATISTICS.
The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington covers an area of 2,291 acres, and is co-extensive
with the Civil Parish and Registration District of the same name. The Borough is divided
into nine wards. South Kensington includes the wards of Holland, Earl's Court, Queen's
Gate, Redcliffe and Brompton, and is co-extensive with the South Kensington Parliamentary
Division. North Kensington, containing the wards of St. Charles, Golborne, Norland and
Pembridge, is not co-terminous with the Parliamentary Division of the same name, in that it
extends northwards to include an area of 100 acres with a population of 3,900 persons which is
still allotted, for Parliamentary purposes only, to Chelsea. The rateable value of the Borough
is £2,430,143. The product of a rate at one penny in the £ is £9,476.
In the comparison of vital statistics for different districts, those for Kensington are sometimes
taken as representing the experience of a good class residential area. For the information of
persons who are not familiar with local conditions, it may therefore be stated that it is only
the figures for South Kensington which can be interpreted in the above mentioned sense. The
northern half of the Borough touches the Harrow Road in the north and the Latimer Road
on the east. In each of the four northern wards there are areas of extreme poverty, and the
Golborne Ward may be taken as an example of a district in which practically the whole population
consists of the working classes, and includes large numbers of semi-destitute persons who have
no regular employment.

Table: Population.—On the assumption that the decline which took place in the intercensal period 1901-1911, will be somewhat less marked in the current decade, the population of the Borough in the middle of the year 1913 is estimated to have numbered 171,700, and it is on this figure that the birth rate and the death rates for the year have been calculated.

Population.—On the assumption that the decline which took place in the intercensal period 1901-1911, will be somewhat less marked in the current decade, the population of the Borough in the middle of the year 1913 is estimated to have numbered 171,700, and it is on this figure that the birth rate and the death rates for the year have been calculated.

Census Population, 1911.Families or separate occupiers, Census 1911.Estimated Population, 1913.
In private families.Inmates of Institutions.Totals.Families,Institu-tions.
Cols. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.
North Kensington84,8463,25488,10020,7626587,682
South Kensington76,0978,12084,21717,35620484,018
St. Charles21,5561,18122,7375,293622,854
Golborne25,19037725,5676,006825,462
Norland20,57361421,1875,0522120,860
Pembridge17,5271,08218,6094,4113018,506
Holland18,9921,27120,2634,4374220,245
Earl's Court16,69192717,6183,9723917,554
Queen's Gate10,5723,71414,2862,1485614,286
Redcliffe18,10999219,1014,2553319,159
Brompton11,7331,21612,9492,5443412,774
The Borough160,94311,374172,31738.118269171,700

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The figures in the above Table, which w as not included in last year's report, show the number
of private households or families and the number of persons living in such households in the Census
year 1911 (vide cols. 5 and 2). Column (i gives the numbers of "institutions, large private
establishments, etc." in each area, the number of inmates being shown in column 3. The last
column shows the estimated populations for each area in the middle of the year 1913. The
natural increase in the population during the year by excess of births over deaths amounted to
926, the net estimated diminution being accounted for as in past years by the excess of emigration
over immigration.