Annual report (abridged) of the Medical Officer of Health 1916.
- Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
- Date:
- [1917]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Annual report (abridged) of the Medical Officer of Health 1916. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1 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 1916 as 165,535 for the purpose of calculating the birth rate, and as 15'2,]44 for the calculation of death rates. Table A. District. Population. Births, Deaths and Rates per 1,000. D. B. Births. Rate. Deaths. Rate. 3,027 165,535 15.4 The Borough 18.3 152,144 2,337 24.7 North Kensington 77,787 84,633 2,090 1,346 17.3 10.7 11.8 South Kensington 74,357 80,902 865 884 15.8 St. Charles 20,075 21,842 567 26.0 317 28.8 18.7 Golborne 22,574 24,562 708 423 Norland 516 25.4 18.7 18,707 20,353 350 Pembridge 16,431 17,876 299 16.7 256 15.6 11.8 12.7 Holland 17,890 19,466 230 228 Earl's Court 15,555 16,924 219 12.9 212 13.6 6.5 7.8 Queen's Gate 12,614 13,724 89 99 217 11.8 14.5 Redcliffe 16,865 18,349 245 Brompton 11,433 - 12,439 - 110 8.8 100 8.6 I Unknown 72 107 Dividing the two population's given for the Borough in 1916 by the Census population in 1911, which was 172,317, the following factors will be obtained, namely, .9606 and .883. 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, .9606, to obtain the birth rate population in the second column, which is headed B. Births.—The number of births registered was 3,027, after correction for inward and outward transfers. Distributed according to sex and legitimacy the births were as follows:— Legitimate Male. Female. Total. 1,378 2,828 1,450 Illegitimate 99 100 199 Total 1,549 3,027 1,478 The birth rate for the Borough was 18.3 per ],000 as compared with a rate of 20.0 in the decennium 1901-10. The number of births and birth rates for the Borough and its constituent districts have been shown in Table A. In four years before the war the illegitimate births numbered 172 (1911),183, 163, and 151 (1914). The increase to 199 in the present year is accordingly only an increase of 16 above the figure for the year 1912.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18121457_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
