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Kensington 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]
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iu the Brompton sub-district the excess of births over deaths
was to the number of 69 only.
| North Kensington | North | 1,045 births, or 32•1 per 1,000 persons living. |
| North-east | 740 births, or 22•9 per 1,000 persons living. | |
| North-west | 673 births, or 32•0 per 1,000 persons living. | |
| South Kensington | Central | 312 births, or 15•5 per 1,000 persons living. |
| South-east | 367 births, or 11•4 per 1,000 persons living. | |
| South-west | 447 births, or 14•0 per 1,000 persons living. |
The births in the "Notting Dale" special area of the
North-west district were 118, and equal to 31.6 per 1,000 of
the population.
In the several sanitary districts the excess of births over
deaths was as follows: North, 393; North-east, 194; Northwest,
22; total excess in North Kensington 609. Central,
46; South-east, 46; South-west, 18; total excess in South
Kensington, 110. In the "Notting Dale" special area the
deaths exceeded the births by 69.
The registered births of illegitimate children in the parish,
as a whole, were, as stated, 221 (41 more than in 1895), viz.,
males 116 and females 105. Of these births 198 were registered
in the Town sub-district, which includes the parish workhouse,
at which institution out of 138 births (males 72, females 66 —
including ten of still-born children—males 5, females 5) 105
were illegitimate. In the parish generally, the illegitimate
births formed 5.9 per cent. of total births, compared with 4.9,
5.8 and 5.0 in the preceding three years respectively.