Annual report (abridged) of the Medical Officer of Health 1919.
- Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
- Date:
- [1920]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Annual report (abridged) of the Medical Officer of Health 1919. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![VITAL STATISTICS Population.—To meet the diminution and abnormal constitution of the population caused by the war, the Registrar-General has estimated the population of Kensington in 1919 as 164,470 for the purpose of calculating the birth rate, and as 157,886 for the calculation of death rates. Table A. District. Population. Births, Deaths and Rates per 1,000. D. B. Births. Rate. Deaths. Rate. The Borough 157,886 164,470 2,653 16.1 2,413 15.2 North Kensington 80,675 84,087 1,824 21.7 1,341 16.6 South Kensington 77,211 80,383 829 10.3 1,019 13.2 St. Charles 20,850 21,701 475 21.9 319 15.3 Golborne 23,344 24,403 649 26.6 409 17.5 Norland 19,422 20,222 443 21.9 337 17.3 Pembridge 17,059 17,761 257 14.4 276 16.1 Holland 18,580 19,340 171 8.8 237 12.7 Earl's Court 16,152 16,816 231 13.7 258 15.9 Queen's Gate 13,099 13,636 111 8.1 138 15.3 Redcliffe 17,510 18,231 216 11.8 258 14.7 Brompton 11,870 12,360 100 8.1 128 10.7 Unknown — — — — 53 — Dividing the two populations given for the Borough in 1919 by the Census population in 1911, which was 172,317, the following factors will be obtained, namely, .9544 and .9162. The populations for the various districts in the Borough have been in each case arrived at by multiplying the census population of the district by the second factor to obtain the death rate population shown in the first column of the table, headed D, and by the first factor, .9544, to obtain the birth rate population in the second column, which is headed B. Births —The number of births registered was 2,653, after correction for inward and outward transfers. Distributed according to sex and legitimacy the births were as follows:— Male. Female. Total. Legitimate 1,209 1,188 2,897 Illegitimate 143 113 256 Total 1,852 1,801 2,653 The birth rate for the Borough was 16T per ],000 as compared with a rate of 20.0 in the decennium 1901-10.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18121469_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
