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marriage rate, i.e., persons married per 1,000 inhabitants was 17.1, the
rate for the County of London being 18.5, and that for England and
Wales 16.0.
Births and Birth Rate.
The births registered in the year numbered 4,106, 2,127 males and
1,979 females. There was one birth to every 29.5 inhabitants, and 100
births of males to 93.1 of females.
The 4,106 births correspond to a birth-rate of 34.2, which is the
lowest birth-rate recorded in Fulham.
The rate for the County of London was 30.0, being also the lowest
on record. Of the adjoining parishes the rates were, Kensington, 21.5
Hammersmith 29.7, and Chelsea 26.4.
In the other sanitary districts of the Metropolis, the rates ranged
from 13.3 in St. Martin's, 15.9 in the City, 17.1 in S. George's, Hanover
Square, and 19.2 in Hampstead, to 38.2 in Mile End, 39.6 in Whitechapel, 42.5
in St. George-in-the-East, and 45.2 in St. Luke's.
Of the 33 large towns of England and Wales, the highest rates
were those of Gateshead 35.8, Liverpool 35.3, Salford 35.1, Sunderland
34.6, and Sheffield 34.4, and the lowest those of Brighton 24.7, Bradford 24.6,
Huddersfield 23.4, and Halifax 22.5.

The mean rate for the 10 years 1887-1896 being 36.3.