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[The "Netting Dale" Special Area comprises Bangor-street,
Crescent-street, St. Katharine's-road, William-street,
and part of St. Clement's-road in the North-west
district.]
The North-east Sanitary District comprises the
remainder of the area between the Railway (north), and
Holland-park-avenue and High-street, Notting-hill (south).
The Central Sanitary District lies between Highstreet,
Notting-hill, and Holland-park-avenue (north), and
Kensington High-street and Kensington-road (south).
The South-east and the South-west Sanitary
Districts, south of Kensington High-street aud Kensingtonroad,
lie east and west of a line running along Wright's-lane,
Marloes-road, Lexham-gardens, Collingham-road, The Boltons
and Gilston-road, to Fulham-road.
THE QUINQUENNIAL ENUMERATION.
The year 1896 will be memorable as that in which, for
the first time, a quinquennial enumeration was made of the
Metropolitan population. The machinery employed was the
same as at the decennial census in 1891, the duty devolving
upon the Registrar-General, acting for the London County
Council. The enumeration made, on the 29th March, had for
its object the ascertainment, for rating purposes, of the gross
popidation of the several sanitary districts of the Metropolis:
it was made in conformity with the provisions of the
Equalization of Rates Act, 1894, the only particulars required
of the householder being the sex of each person and his or
her relationship to the head of the family. Restricted as the
enquiry thus was its results are not without value to the
sanitary statistician. Among other things, in this parish, the
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