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THE REGISTRATION DISTRICT AND SUB-DISTRICTS,
in which we are locally interested.
"Kensington," prior to 1st January, 1885, was the title
of a Registration District, No. 1 on the Registrar-General's
list, comprising the parishes of Kensington and Paddington.
Since that date the Parish of Kensington has been constituted a
separate Registration District, and is numbered 1b. It contains
2190 acres according to the Registrar-General; but in your
Vestry's Annual Report the area is given as 2245 acres. In
1871 the enumerated houses were 15,735; in 1881, 20,103;
increase, 4368. In 1871 the population was 120,299; in 1881,
163,151; increase, 42,852. At the middle of 1890 the inhabited
houses were some 21,800, and the estimated population 179,500.
Registration Sub-Districts.—For registration purposes
the Parish is unequally divided into two sub-districts, "Kensington
Town," hereinafter for brevity designated "Town," and
"Brompton." The Town sub-district comprises an area of 1497
acres, the area of Brompton being 693 acres. The population of
the Town sub-district at the middle of 1890 was about 131,000,
and that of Brompton 48,500. The Town sub-district still
includes some open spaces, as Holland Park and Notting 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, Government property, is in this sub-district; the
Kensal Green Cemetery, private ownership, is in the Town subdistrict.
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 even an increasing percentage ,of persons of the poorer
classes. The poor in Kensington, however, are better off in one