PAGE BLANKETS 22 COAL FUND 20 CLOTHING FUND 21 WINTER CLUB 21 PROVIDENT CLUB 21 WORK SOCIETY 23 MATERNITY SOCIETY 13 PAROCHIAL NURSERY 14 INFANT SCHOOL 15 CHRIST CHURCH NATIONAL SCHOOL, GORE LANE 18 JENNINGS’ BUILDINGS SCHOOL 16 ANALYSIS OF RELIEF GIVEN 24 DISTRICT VISITING—ITS PRACTICAL WORKING 25 —RESULTS 28 NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. In putting forth, for the information and satisfaction of the Parishioners of St. Mary Abbott’s, the Ninth Annual Report of the KENSINGTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND DISTRICT VISITING SOCIETY, the Committee feel constrained to call the serious attention of all residents blessed with the will and power of exercising a discriminating charity to the several subscription lists annually put forth from the date of its foundation. A comparative view of the balance sheets of its receipts and expenditure, from the time that the several Ecclesiastical Districts were separated from the Mother Church will reveal facts, which no impartial person can consider in creditable keeping with the progress that has taken place in the numbers and respectability of the population. Large areas of formerly vacant ground, both in the New Town and on Campden Hill, are now covered with houses, in the occupation of tenants who must possess competent, if not abundant, means. In Palace Gardens, mansions have sprung up, which, in all the appliances of a luxurious and tasteful civilization, throw into the shade the neighbouring Royal residence. The value of rateable property is now assessed at a sum that very largely exceeds its registered amount six years ago. From such data, and arguing from the general benevolence of the English character it would not have been unreasonable to expect a corresponding advance in the sums set apart for Christian Almsgiving. This natural hope has not been justified. The reverse is the case. Year by year the contributions have been falling off, until between the revenues of 1846 and 1852, there exists no less a difference than 150_l._, being considerably more than a third of the entire income from those sources. Nor must it be supposed that the continued erection of habitations adapted to the requirements of families moving in the upper and middle walks of life has been unaccompanied by any provision for the accommodation of the numerous classes who wait upon and minister to their wants. In one street alone a considerable number of small dwellings, containing from six to eight rooms, have recently