View report page

4
VITAL STATISTICS.
The Royal Borough of Kensington as constituted under the London Government Act, 1899,
covers an area of 2,291 acres, and is co.extensive with the civil parish and registration district
of the same name. The line of demarcation formed by Holland Park Avenue, High Street,
Notting Hill Gate, and the Bayswater Road divides the borough into approximately equal halves
described in previous years and in this report as North and South Kensington respectively.
Each of these areas is co.terminous with the parliamentary division of the same name. The
borough is further sub.divided into nine wards. North Kensington includes the wards of St.
Charles, Golborne, Norland and Pembridge, whilst South Kensington is made up of the five other
wards, namely, Holland, Earl's Court, Queen's Gate, Redcliffe and Brompton.
POPULATION.
The population of the borough as ascertained at the census in 1931 was 180,677 persons; but
on subtracting the number of visitors in Kensington on the census night and adding to the total
the number of Kensington residents who spent that night outside the borough, the true population
is found to be 183,893.
For the purpose of this report, the population for 1932 has been estimated at 183,500.

The proportion of females per 1,000 males in London has fallen from 1,165 in 1921 to 1,151 in
1931, the numerical excess of females being now 308,707, as compared with 341,365 in 1921.
In Kensington, the proportion of females per 1,000 males is 1,544, which is a higher figure than
that in any other metropolitan borough except Hampstead, where the proportion is 1,547 per 1,000..
The proportion for North Kensington is 1,213 per 1,000, and for South Kensington 2,048 per 1,000.
In London generally, up to the age of ten years there is a preponderance of males. At subsequent
ages there is a preponderance of females, which grows with advancing ages. Between the
ages of 20 and 29, there are 14,976 more females than males. After the latter age, however, females
show a rapid increase owing to their lower death rate, until at the age of 60 and over there are 1,361
females to every 1,000 males, whereas the females at all ages per 1,000 males in the county number
1,151.
In Kensington, between the ages of 10 and 29, there are 11,133 males, and 13,840 females.
Between the ages of 30 and 49, there are 19,452 males and 33,302 females. From the age of 50
onwards there are 16,380 males and 29,810 females.
It will be seen that there is not a great difference between the number of males and females
in London at what might be called the marriageable ages; indeed, between the ages of 20 and 29
there are in London only 1,044 females who are marriageable (single, widowed or divorced) to every
1,000 marriageable males of the same age. In Kensington, the number of marriageable females
between the ages of 20 and 29 to each 1,000 marriageable males of the same age is 1,743.