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enumerated houses were 15,735, in 1881, 20,103: increase,
4,368.
In 1871 the population was 120,299; in 1881, 1(53,151:
increase, 42,852. At the middle of 1886 the inhabited houses
were some 21,500 and the estimated population 173,500.
Registration Sub-Districts.—For registration purposes the
parish is unequally divided into two sub-clistricts, "Kensington
Town," hereinafter for brevity designated "Town," and
"Brompton." The Town sub-district comprises an area of 1,497
acres, the area of Brompton being 693 acres. The population
of the Town sub-district at the middle of 1886 was about 127,800,
and that of Brompton 45,700. The Town sub-district still
includes some open spaces, as Holland Park and Xotting Barn
Farm. The Brompton sub-district, in which the builder has been
busy of late years, many of the new houses being of a palatial
character, is now nearly covered. The West London or Brompton
Cemetery is in this sub-district: the Kensal Green Cemetery is
in the Town sub-district. These cemeteries, it is to be regretted,
are still in active use.
The sub-districts present marked differences, which must be
borne in mind in any comparison of their vital statistics. In
Brompton the rich and well-to-do form a large proportion of the
population, whilst in the Town sub-district there is a considerable
and probably an increasing percentage of persons of the poorer
classes. The poor in Kensington, however, are better off in one
respect than the poor in some other parts of the Metropolis, in
that, for the most part, they live in houses fairly well-built and
obviously intended for occupation by the lower middle class; miles
of streets of such houses being now inhabited by persons of a class
who in some of the older parts of the Metropolis live in dwellings
that by comparison might be termed "squalid."
Kensington is for some local purposes divided into "Wards:"
the subjoined table shows the acreage of the wards, their population,
and the number of inhabited houses, etc., in 1871 and
1881.