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REGISTRATION DISTRICT AND SUB-DISTRICTS.
"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
comprises, according to the Registrar-General, an area of
2,190 acres.
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 Town sub-district still includes some open spaces, as
Holland Park and Notting Barn Farm. The Brompton subdistrict,
in which the builder has been busy of late years,
many of the new houses being of a palatial character, is now
practically covered. The West London or Brompton Cemetery,
government property, is in this sub-district; the Kensal
Green Cemetery, in private ownership, is in the Town subdistrict.
The sub-districts present marked differences, which must
be borne in mind in any comparision 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 I believe an increasing, percentage of persons
of the poorer classes. 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 classes: many 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,