From the above table it appears that there are an almost equal number of the sexes under the age of 5. Between 5 and 15 the excess of females begins, amounting to 1,329—this representing the “school” age, and the preponderance of females being explained, with probability, by the large number of girls’ schools in the parish. In the next three decades (15 to 45) there is a further large increase of females, viz., 7,637, 5,886, and 3,117 = (16,640), a considerable proportion of which doubtless consists of domestic servants. The increase is maintained throughout the table, but on a diminished scale, amounting in the three following decades (45–75) to 3,936, viz., 1,902, 1,304, and 730. Of persons above 75 years of age, 1,184 were enumerated; the excess of females being 358. The preponderance of females at middle life and in old age is probably due to the residence from choice of many independent persons, attracted by the salubrity and by the social and other advantages of Kensington; and to the greater longevity of women. The superficial area of the parish is 2,190 acres, viz., 1,497 in the Town sub-district, and 639 in Brompton. Some 300 or 400 acres are still uncovered by buildings. The density of the population is about 74 persons to an acre. The total number of houses, including empties and those in course of erection, slightly exceeds 20,000. The inhabited houses at the middle of the year were about 17,667, an increase of 747 over the previous year. There were about 7.8 persons to each house on an average throughout the parish; but at the census, 1871, it appeared that the average in the Brompton Sub-district was only seven. The subjoined table is of interest, showing as it does the remarkable growth of the parish in wealth and population during the present century: 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: