[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough].
- Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
- Date:
- [1913]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![3 vital statistics. The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington as constituted under the London Government Act, 1899, covers an area of 2,291 acres, and is co-extensive with the Civil Parish and Registration District of the same name. The line of demarcation formed by Holland Park Avenue, High Street, Notting Hill Gate, and the Bayswater Road divides the Borough into approximately equal halves described in previous years and in this Report as North and South Kensington respectively. The Borough is further sub-divided into nine wards. South Kensington includes the wards of Holland, Earl's Court, Queen's Gate, Redcliffe and Brompton, and is co-extensive with the South Kensington Parliamentary Division. North Kensington, containing the wards of St Charles, Golborne, Norland and Pembridge, is not co-terminous with the Parliamentary Division of the same name, in that it extends northwards to include an area of 100 acres with a population of 3,900 persons which is still allotted, for parliamentary purposes only, to Chelsea. The rateable value of the Borough is £2,426,919. The product of a rate at one penny in the £ is £9,369. Population.—On the assumption that the decline which took place in the intercensal period 1901-1911, will be somewhat less marked in the current decade, the population of the Borough in the middle of the year 1912 is estimated to have numbered 172,000, and it is on this figure that the birth rate and the death rates for the year have been calculated. The Census returns, as revised since my last report, show a net decrease in the population in ten years of 4,311, or 2.5 per cent. for the Borough, of 2,918 or 3'2 per cent. for North Kensington, and of 1,393 or 1.7 per cent. for South Kensington. The Census figures for the several wards have now been published, and are given in the following Table:— ###] [Census Population, 1901. Census Population, 1911. Increase + Decrease — Difference per cent. Estimated Population, 1912. The Borough 176,628 172,317 -4,311 - 2.5 172,000 North Kensington 91,018 88,100 -2,918 - 3. 87,885 South Kensington 85,610 84,217 -1,393 - 1.7 84,115 St. Charles 21,937 22,737 + 800 + 3.5 22,798 Golborne 26,307 25,567 - 740 - 2.9 25,513 Norland 23,449 21,187 -2,262 -10.7 21,018 Pembridge 19,325 18,609 - 716 - 3.8 18,556 Holland 20,391 20,263 - 128 - 0.6 20,254 Earl's Court 18,064 17,618 - 446 - 2.5 17,585 Queen's Gate 14,284 14,286 + 2 — 14,286 Redcliffe 18,713 19,101 + 388 + 2.0 19,131 Brompton 14,158 12,949 -1,209 - 9.3 12,859 In South Kensington it is satisfactory to note that in two wards there has been no decline, in Holland and Earl's Court the decline has been insignificant, whilst Brompton, with a decrease of 1,209 or close on 10 per cent., is the only ward in the South in which a serious loss has occurred. The most remarkable feature of the figures for North Kensington is the inequality of the losses in the poorest areas. Both in Norland and Golborne the large number of empty tenements is very noticeable, but whilst the former ward has suffered a loss of 2,000, or more than 10 per cent. the loss in Golborne has only amounted to 740, or less than 3 per cent. The increase in the population in St. Charles' Ward has been due to the erection and occupation of new houses on the St. Quintin's Park Estate. A fall in the excessive rents which the working classes are obliged to pay for their lodgings might be expected to follow in districts where the number of persons is diminishing, but it is to be feared that the advantages of such a result are unfortunately likely to be outweighed by the necessity for accepting undesirable tenants of the lowest class which the necessity for accepting lower rents usually involves.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18235682_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
