[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish].
- Kensington (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
- Date:
- [1897]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Parish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![3 [The Netting Dale Special Area comprises Bangor-street, Crescent-street, St. Katharine's-road, William-street, and part of St. Clement's-road in the North-west district.] The North-east Sanitary District comprises the remainder of the area between the Railway (north), and Holland-park-avenue and High-street, Notting-hill (south). The Central Sanitary District lies between High street, Notting-hill, and Holland-park-avenue (north), and Kensington High-street and Kensington-road (south). The South-east and the South-west Sanitary Districts, south of Kensington High-street aud Kensington road, lie east and west of a line running along Wright's-lane, Marloes-road, Lexham-gardens, Collingham-road, The Boltons and Gilston-road, to Fulham-road. THE QUINQUENNIAL ENUMERATION. The year 1896 will be memorable as that in which, for the first time, a quinquennial enumeration was made of the Metropolitan population. The machinery employed was the same as at the decennial census in 1891, the duty devolving upon the Registrar-General, acting for the London County Council. The enumeration made, on the 29th March, had for its object the ascertainment, for rating purposes, of the gross popidation of the several sanitary districts of the Metropolis: it was made in conformity with the provisions of the Equalization of Rates Act, 1894, the only particulars required of the householder being the sex of each person and his or her relationship to the head of the family. Restricted as the enquiry thus was its results are not without value to the sanitary statistician. Among other things, in this parish, the B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18239997_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
