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numbers of persons were out of town on Sunday, April 5th,
1891, suffices, in my opinion, to account largely, if not
entirely, for the difference between the estimated and the
enumerated population of Kensington.
But whether the Census return has suffered in accuracy
from having been taken at an inconvenient period, or from any
other cause or causes, it seems to me that there is no alternative
but to accept and act upon the official numbers; and
this is the course I have adopted, although it has involved
the correction of all the rates, of marriages, of births, and of
deaths, tor the entire period since 1881.
Kensington for the purposes of the Census was divided
into 85 Enumeration Districts, viz., 57 in the Town subdistrict
and 28 in the Brompton sub-district. The Registrar-General
having favoured me with a list of the streets,
&c., comprised in the several districts, together with the
population, and the number of inhabited houses, &c., in each,
I am glad to avail myself of the opportunity of placing this
valuable information on record (vide Appendix). At a future
time 1 hope to be enabled to ascertain the rate of mortality
prevailing in the several Enumeration Districts.
Kensington for Ecclesiastical purposes comprises
29 sub-divisions. The titles and the population of these
several sub-divisions I hope to be enabled to give in the
Appendix.
For Parliamentary Election purposes the Parish
comprises two divisions, respectively encitled North Kensington
and South Kensington. The enumerated population
of "North Kensington," or that part of the Parish north of
the centre of Uxbridge Road, was 117,321; that of "South
Kensington," or the remainder of the Parish, south of the
centre of Uxbridge Road, being 49,000.