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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 1905

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Royal Borough of Kensington for the year 1905

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Table: MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.The marriages in the year were 1,574, compared with 1,703, 1,623 and 1,672 in the three preceding years respectively. Of these marriages there were celebrated—

MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.The marriages in the year were 1,574, compared with 1,703, 1,623 and 1,672 in the three preceding years respectively. Of these marriages there were celebrated—

By the Church (64.9 per cent. of total marriages)1,022
At Roman Catholic places of worship149
At other Nonconformist places of worship61
At the Jewish Synagogue11
At the Superintendent-Registrar's Office331
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Table: The subjoined table shows:— Marriage-Rate in Ten Years 1895-1904, and in 1905, in Kensington, London, and England and Wales.

The subjoined table shows:— Marriage-Rate in Ten Years 1895-1904, and in 1905, in Kensington, London, and England and Wales.

YEAR.Kensington.London.England and Wales.
No. of Marriages.Marriage Rate.Marriage Rate.Marriage Rate.
18951,45517·217·115·0
18961,70620·118·015·8
18971,68119·718·516·0
18981,64819·218·816·2
18991,69319·618·616·4
19001,54317·818·015·9
19011,65118·717·615·9
19021,70319·217·815·8
19031,62318·217·415·6
19041,67218·717·015·2
Average 1895-19041,63718·817·915·8
19051,57417·616·915·3

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BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The births registered were 3,458;* viz., males, 1,760, and females, 1,698: in the Town
sub-district (which includes the Borough Infirmary), 2,949, and in the Brompton sub-district, 509.
The male births were to the female births in the proportion of 1,036 to 1,000.
The births were 242 below the corrected decennial average (3,700). They were 10 more
than in the year 1904, but fewer by 583 than the number in 1872 (4,041), when the population
(127,600) was 51,400 less than in 1905 ; 157 of them were of illegitimate children.
The birth-rate, which of late years has always been considerably below that of London, has
been declining since 1868, in which year it was 33.1 per 1,000 persons living. In 1905 it was
19.3 per 1,000, and 1.3 below the decennial average (20.6).
The rate in the sub-districts was:—Town, 22.7, Brompton, 10.3 per 1,000.
• Exclusive of 121 registered without the Borough, at Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital.