Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]
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TABLE 1. Showing Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, in 1896, and in the preceding ten years : gross numbers.
The Year. | Estimated Population.1 | No. of Inhabited Houses.† | Marriages. | Registered Births. | Deaths. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total, all Ages ‡ | Under One Year. | Under Five Years. | In Public Institutions. | |||||
1896 | 170,000 | 22,576 | ** 1,706 | **3,717 | * * 2,891 | 656 | 1,111 | 817 |
1895 | 169,300 | 22,483 | 1,455 | 3,621 | 2,748 | 624 | 951 | 762 |
1894 | 168,600 | 22,390 | 1,537 | 3,665 | 2,623 | 636 | 1,022 | 749 |
1893 | 167,900 | 22,297 | 1,540 | 3,661 | 2,916 | 625 | 965 | 740 |
1892 | 167,200 | 22,204 | 1,584 | 3,718 | 2,882 | 587 | 972 | 687 |
1891 | 166,500 | 22,084 | 1,569 | 3,847 | 3,066 | 633 | 968 | 773 |
1890 | 166,080 | 21,800 | ** 1,511 | ** 3,864 | ** 2,951 | 651 | 1,095 | 612 |
1889 | 165,760 | 21,700 | 1,491 | 3,698 | 2,412 | 489 | 789 | 570 |
1888 | 165,450 | 21,600 | 1,497 | 3,776 | 2,825 | 604 | 1,077 | 590 |
1887 | 165,140 | 21,566 | 1,561 | 3,941 | 2,872 | 680 | 1,129 | 608 |
1886 | 164,820 | 21,500 | 1,605 | 4,149 | 2,756 | 636 | 1,029 | 604 |
Average 10 years 1886-95. | 166,675 | — | 1,535 | 3,794 | 2,805 | 616 | 1,000 | 670 |
Census Population 1861, 70,108 ; 1871, 120.299 ; 1881, 163.151 ; 1891, 166,308 ;
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 Parish, 2,190 acres. Number of persons to an acre (1896). 77.6.
* 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.
† The data are somewhat unreliable. The Census number, which includes
house. occupied only by caretakers, is given for 1891. The number in the years
1892-96 has been calculated upon the assumption of an average number of 7.53
persons to each house as ascertained at the census in 1891.
* Inclusive of the deaths of parishioners at public institutions without the
Parish, but exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions
within the Parish.
$ Viz.: At the Parish Infirmary. Ac., and outlying public institutions, including
the Asylums Board Hospitals,
* In 53 weeks.