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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.
The marriages in the parish in 1897 were 1,681, as compared
with 1,537,1,455,and 1,706, in the preceding three years
respectively. Of these marriages there were celebrated—
By the Church (69.1 % of total marriages) 1,162
At Roman Catholic places of worship 124
At other Nonconformist places of worship 72
At the Superintendent-Registrar's office 323
The marriage rate (i.e., the number of persons married to
1,000 living) was 19.7, as compared with 18.4, 17.4, and 20.1,
in the preceding three years respectively. The marriage rate
in England and Wales, was 16.0 per 1,000, as compared
with 15.0, 15.0, and 15.8 in the preceding three years. The
rate in London was 18.5 per 1,000, as compared with 17.0,
17.1, and 18.0 in the preceding three years respectively.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The births registered were 3,683, viz., males, 1,839, and
females, 1,844; in the Town sub-district, which includes the
parish infirmary, 3,133, and in Brompton 550. The births were
145 below the corrected decennial average (3,828): 194 of them
were of illegitimate children. The 3,683 births were 36 fewer
than the number registered in the previous year (3,717), but as
the registration year 1896 comprised a period of 53 weeks,
the births in 1897 were 35 more than in 1896, after correction
for the 53rd week. The births were, however, 358 fewer than
the number in 1872 (4,041), when the population (127,400)
was 43,300 less than in 1897. The Kensington birth-rate,
which is considerably below that of London, as a whole (30.0
in 1897), has been declining since 1868, in which year it was
33.1 per 1,000. In 1897 it was 21.6 per 1,000, and 0.8 below
the decennial average (22.4). The rate in the sub-districts
was : Town, 25.6 ; Brompton, 11.4 per 1,000. In the Town
sub-district the registered births were 964 more in number
than the deaths, whilst in the Brompton sub-district, the excess
of births over deaths was to the number of 52 only.