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Kensington 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Table: 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.

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.

Name of WardArea in Statute Acres.Inhabited houses.Increase in 10 years.Population.Increase in 10 years.
1871.1881.1871.1881.
St. Mary Abbotts8464,7816,5731,79235,69648,83113,135
Holy Trinity, Brompton.4393,2243,93671222,12826,7464,618
St.John,Notting Hill & St. James Norland.9057,7309,5941,86462,47587,57425,099

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The rateable annual value of property in the several wards, in
1871, was as follows:—St. Mary Abbotts, £323,992; Holy
Trinity, £246,716; St. John and St. James, £365,012. Total,
whole parish, £935,720. In 1881 the returns for the first and
second wards, which cannot now be given separately, show a
rateable value of £1,078,512 (increase, £507,804); the rateable
value of St. John and St. James being £501,704 (increase,
£136,692). Total, whole parish, £1,580,216 (increase, £644,496).

Table: The subjoined figures will be found interesting as marking the development of the parish in population and wealth, since the beginning of the century.

The subjoined figures will be found interesting as marking the development of the parish in population and wealth, since the beginning of the century.

The Year.Population.Rateable value of Property.The Year.
18018,556£75,9161823
182114,42893,3971833
184126,834142,7721843
185144,053257,1031853
186170,108444,0301863
1871120,299975,0461873
1881163,1511.580,2161881
1886 (July)173,5001,846,647(April) 1887

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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS, &c.
The year 1886, regarded from the health point of view, was a
satisfactory one, the rate of mortality having been, as already
stated, 2.0 per 1,000 below the decennial average, and 0.2 below
the rate in 1885. In eleven of my four-weekly reports, I had to
record a rate lower than the decennial average (vide Table at
page 23). In two months only was the rate above the average—
viz., 0.1 per 1,000 in February, and 4.5 per 1,000 in March; the
rate in the latter (23.2) being the highest in the year, and due
to seven weeks of continuous cold weather, which had the effect
of largely augmenting the number of deaths of aged persons,
and of persons at all ages from diseases of the respiratory