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deaths registered during the same period. Time will soon
reveal whether this estimate (which assumes an annual loss of
530 persons, due to migration) errs on the side of excess or
defect, inasmuch as a poll-census will be taken in March, 1896,
for the purposes of the Equalization of Rates Act.
MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
The marriages in the parish, in 1895, were 1,455 in
number, compared with 1,584, 1,540 and 1,537 in the
preceding three years respectively. Of these marriages there
were celebrated:
By the Church (71.1 per cent, of total marriages) 1035
At Roman Catholic places of worship 112
At other Nonconformist places of worship 61
At the Superintendent-Registrar's office 247
Total 1,455
The marriage rate, i.e., persons married to 1,000
inhabitants, was 17.4 compared with 19.0 18.4 and 18.4, in the
preceding three years respectively. The marriage rate in
England and Wales was 15.0 per 1,000, compared with 15.4,14.7
and 15.0 in the preceding three years. The rate in London
was 17.1 per 1,000 compared with 17.7, 17.4, 17.2, and 17.0, per
1,000 in the preceding four years respectively.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The births registered were 3,021; of males, 1,861; and of
females, 1,760; the numbers being, in the Town sub-district
3,052, and in Brompton 569: 180 of the births were of
illegitimate children. The Kensington birth-rate, which is
much lower than that of London as a whole (30 5 in 1895),*
has been declining since 1868, when it was 331 per 1000 of
The London birth rate was 1.3 below the decennial average, and,
with the single exception of the preceding year when the rate was 30.1, was
the lowest on record. The birth-rate in England and Wales (30.3 per 1,000)
was 0.9 per 1,000 below the average rate (312) in the ten years 1885.94.