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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
The marriages in the parish in the year were 1,693, as
compared with 1,706, 1,681, and 1,648, in the three preceding
years respectively. Of these marriages there were celebrated—
By the Church (71.5% of total marriages) 1,210
At Roman Catholic places of worship 132
At other Nonconformist places of worship 63
At the Superintendent-Registrar's office 288
The marriage-rate (i.e., the number of persons married to
1,000 living) was 19.6, as compared with 20.1, 19.7 and 19.2,
in the three preceding years respectively. The marriage-rate
in England and Wales was 16.5 per 1,000, as compared
with 15.8, 16.0, and 16.2, in the three preceding years.
The rate in London was 18.4 per 1,000, as compared with 18.0,
18.5, and 18.7, in the three preceding years respectively.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The births registered were 3,590; viz., males 1,798, and
females 1,792: the numbers being, in the Town sub-district
(which includes the parish infirmary) 3,046; and in the Brompton
sub-district 544. The births were 209 below the corrected
decennial average (3,799): 191 of them were of illegitimate
children. The births were 43 fewer than in 1898: they were
also fewer by 451 than the number in 1872 (4,041): when the
population (127,400) was 45,000 less than in 1899. The birthrate,
which of late years has been always considerably below
that of London, as a whole, (29.4 in 1899, and the lowest on
record), has been declining since 1868, in which year it was
33.1 per 1,000 persons living. In 1899 it was 20.8 per 1,000,
and 1.2 below the decennial average (22.0). The rate in the
sub-districts was, Town, 24.6, and Brompton 11.2 per 1,000.
The births in North Kensington, i.e., the part of the parish
north of Holland-park-avenue and High-street, Notting-hill,
were 2,530, and the birth-rate 28.8 per 1,000 persons living.
The births in South Kensington, i.e., the part of the parish