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Kensington 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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Brompton Cemetery, Government property, is in this subdistrict;
the Kensal Green Cemetery, private ownership, is in
the Town sub-district.
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 class. 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 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.
Kensington is for some local purposes divided into Wards : the subjoined table shews 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 houses. | Increase in 10 years. | Population. | Idcrease in 10 years. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871. | lfSl. | 1871. | 1881. | |||||
| St. Ma'-y 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 | |
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, Norland, £365,012.
Total, whole Parish, £935,720. In 1881 the returns for the
first and second wards, which cannot now be given separately,
shew 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).