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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
The marriages in the parish in the year were 1,648, as com—
pared with 1,455,1,706, and 1,681, in the preceding three years
respectively. Of these marriages there were celebrated—
By the Church (71.7 % of total marriages) 1,182
At Roman Catholic places of worship 132
At other Noncomformist places of worship 55
At the Superintendent-Registrar's office 279
The marriage rate (i.e., the number of persons married to
1,000 living) was 19.2, as compared with 17.4, 20.1, and 19.7,
in the preceding three years respectively. The marriage rate
in England and Wales was 16.2 per 1,000, as compared
with 15.0, 15.8, and 16.0, in the preceding three years. The
rate in London was 18.7 per 1,000, as compared with 17.1,
18.0, and 18.5, in the preceding three years respectively. The
rate in 1898 was the highest recorded in London in any year
since 1877.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The births registered were 3,633, viz:—males 1,830, and
females 1,803 ; the numbers being, in the Town sub-district
(which includes the parish infirmary) 3,078, and in Brompton
555. The births were 185 below the corrected decennial
average, 3,818; 182 of them were of illegitimate children.
The births were 50 fewer than the number registered in 1897;
but 53 weeks were included in the return for that year: they
were, moreover, 408 fewer than the number in 1872 (4,041)
when the population (127,400) was 44,600 less than in 1898.
The birth-rate, which is considerably below that of London,
as a whole (29.5 in 1898, the lowest on record) has been
declining since 1868, in which year it was 33.1 per 1,000
persons living. In 1898 it was 211 per 1,000, and 1.1 below
the decennial average (22 2). The rate in the sub-districts
was—Town 249, Brompton 11.5 per 1,000. In the Town
sub-district, the registered births were 776 more in number than