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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Kensington 1893

The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year 1893

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Table: MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE. The marriages in 1893 were 1,540, against 1,511, 1,569 and 1,584 in the preceding three years respectively. Of these there were celebrated :

MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE. The marriages in 1893 were 1,540, against 1,511, 1,569 and 1,584 in the preceding three years respectively. Of these there were celebrated :

By the Church (73'9 per cent. of total marriages)1138
At Roman Catholic Places of Worship120
At other Nonconformist Places of Worship56
At the Superintendent-Registrar's Office226
Total1,540

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The marriage-rate, i.e. persons married to 1000 inhabitants,
was 18.4, compared with 18.2, 18.9 and 19.0 in the preceding
three years respectively. The marriage-rate in
England and Wales was 14.7 per 1,000* as compared with
15.15, 15.5, and 15.4 in the preceding three years. The rate in
London, was 17.2 compared with 17.4 in 1892, 17.7 in 1891,
17.6 in 1890, 17.1 in 1889, 16.9 in 1888, and 16.8 in 1887 ;
the latter being the lowest rate ever recorded.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The births registered in the 52 weeks of the registration
year 1893, were 3,661 : males, 1,893, and females, 1,768; the
numbers in the Town and Brompton sub-districts respectively,
being 2,993 and 668. They were 57 fewer than in 1892 (viz.,
3,718 : Town 3,071 ; Brompton 732), and 380 fewer than in
1872, when the population (127,400) was 39,600 less than in
1893. The Kensington birth-rate, which is considerably
below that of London as a whole (31.0 in 1893) has been
declining since 1868, when it was 33.1 per 1,000. In 1893 it
was 21.9 per 1,000, and 21 below the deccenial average
(24.0). The rate was 25.2 in the Town sub-district and
13.9 in Brompton There was one birth to 45.6 inhabitants,
and 107 births of males to 100 of females. The
birth-rate in England and Wales in 1893 was 30.8 per
1,000, and slightly higher than that in 1892 ; but it was 3.4 per
*The rate in the four quarters successively was 10.9, 15.9, 15.6, and 16.3.