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Prom the above table it appears that there are an almost equal
number of the sexes under the age of 5. Between 5 and 15 the
excess of females begins, amounting to 1,329—this representing
the " school " age, and the preponderance of females being explained,
with probability, by the large number of girls' schools in
the parish. In the next three decades (15 to 45) there is a further
large increase of females, viz., 7,637, 5,886, and 3,117 =
(16,640), a considerable proportion of which doubtless consists
of domestic servants. The increase is maintained throughout the
table, but on a diminished scale, amounting in the three following
decades (45.75) to 3,936, viz., 1,902, 1,304, and 730. Of persons
above 75 years of age, 1,184 were enumerated; the excess
of females being 358. The preponderance of females at middle
life and in old age is probably due to the residence from choice of
many independent persons, attracted by the salubrity and by the
social and other advantages of Kensington; and to the greater
longevity of women.
The superficial area of the parish is 2,190 acres, viz., 1,497 in
the Town sub.district, and 639 in Brompton. Some 300 or 400
acres are still uncovered by buildings. The density of the population
is about 74 persons to an acre. The total number of
houses, including empties and those in course of erection, slightly
exceeds 20,000. The inhabited houses at the middle of the year
were about 17,667, an increase of 747 over the previous year.
There were about 7.8 persons to each house on an average throughout
the parish; but at'the census, 1871, it appeared that the average
in the Bronmton Sub.district was onlv seven.

MARRIAGES.
The marriages celebrated during the year were 1,311; one
marriage to 105.2 of the population. Nineteen persons were
married out of every 1,000 living. The marriage rate in all England
in 1872 (last year of publication) was 17.5. The marriages
in Kensington were celebrated as follows: