[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington] page 14

Kensington 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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lower middle class : miles of streets of such houses are 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.

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.

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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 Ward.	Area in Statute Acres.		Inhabited 1871.	houses. 1881	Increase in 10 years.	Population.		Increase in 10 years.
Name of Ward.	Area in Statute Acres.		Inhabited 1871.	houses. 1881	Increase in 10 years.	1871.	1881.	Increase in 10 years.
St. Mary Abbotts		846	4,781	6,573	1,792	35,696	48,831	13,135
Holy Trinity, Brompton.		439	3,224	3,936	712	22,128	26,746	4,618
St.John.Notting Hill,& St. James, Norland.		905	7,730	9,594	1,864	62,475	87,574	25,099

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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.

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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
1801	8,556	£75,916	1823
1821	14.428	93,397	1833
1841	26,834	142,772	1843
1851	44,053	257,103	1853
1861	70,108	444,030	1863
1871	120,299	975,046	1873
1881	163,151	1,711,495	1883
1887 (July)	175,000	1,876,043	(April) 1888

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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS, &c.
The year 1887, regarded from a health point of view, was
not so satisfactory as its immediate predecessors, the rate of

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Kensington 1887

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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.

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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.

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