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Registration Sub-Districts.—As usual, there was a great difference
both in the general and in the zymotic death-rate of the two
registration sub-districts, into which the parish is unequally divided,
viz., "Kensington Town" and "Brompton," and much to the advantage
of the latter. The former district, hereinafter for brevity called the
"Town," comprises that portion of the parish north of Kensington
Road, and a portion south of that line. It has an area of 1,497 acres,
and it had an estimated population of 114,100 at the middle of 1878.
The area of "Brompton;" is 693 acres, and its estimated population
was 39,500. The Town sub-district includes important open spaces,
as Holland Bark, Kensal Green Cemetery, and fields in the vicinity
thereof, which are now being rapidly covered with houses. The Brompton
sub-district, in which the builder has been very busy during the last
few years—many of the new houses being of a palatial character—
comprises within its boundaries the West London or "Brompton"
Cemetery.
The two sub-districts differ widely in respect of the social status of
their inhabitants. Speaking generally the rich and well-to-do form a
large proportion of the population in "Brompton," the "poor" being
few in number; while in the Town sub-district, especially in the northern
part of the parish, the poor constitute a large and an increasing percentage
of the population. The poor in Kensington, however, have one
advantage over the poor in some other parts of the Metropolis, especially
at the East end, viz., that they live in houses obviously intended for a
superior class: miles of streets of such houses being now inhabited by