The Year. Population. Rateable Value. The Year.
1801 8,556 £75,916 1823
1821 14,428 93,397 1833
1841 26,834 142,772 1843
1851 44,053 257,103 1853
1861 70,108 375,333 1860
1871 120,299 590,711 1865
1874 (estmtd.) 138,000 817,326 1870
£1,119,442 (April) 1875

MARRIAGES.

The marriages celebrated during the year were 1,311; one marriage to 105.2 of the population. Nineteen persons were married out of every 1,000 living. The marriage rate in all England in 1872 (last year of publication) was 17.5. The marriages in Kensington were celebrated as follows:

In Churches 1077
At Nonconformist Places of Worship 71
At Roman Catholic 70
At the Superintendent-Registrar’s Office 93
Total 1311

The marriages in the three previous years were: 1871, 1,131; 1872, 1,132; 1873, 1,241.

BIRTHS.

The births registered—registration not being compulsory—were 4,351. The annual birth rate in Kensington was 31.7 per 1,000 persons living, and in the Metropolis 35.7. The births in the Town sub-district were 3,536, and in Brompton 815: 2,216 males and 2,135 females were born. The males formed about 51, and the females 49 per cent of the births—104 males being born to 100 females: about the same proportion as in all England. One child was born to 31.6 of the population. The birth rate in the Town sub-district was 33.6, and in Brompton 24.8 per 1,000. The deficient birth rate, as compared with that of the Metropolis and England, is the result of the great disproportion in the relative number of the sexes already alluded to; the rate, however, is slightly increasing, as may be seen by reference to Tables 1 and 2 (Appendix.)

The subjoined table shows the quarterly number of births in each sub-district:

Kensington Town
Sub-District.

Brompton
Sub-District.

Males.

Females.

Total.

Males.

Females.

Total.

Grand Total.

1st Quarter

484

475

959

94

111

205

1164

2nd

464

409

873

102

95

197

1070

3rd

435

405

840

84

103

187

1027

4th

448

416

864

105

121

226

1090

Total

1831

1705

3536

385

430

815

4351

DEATHS.