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MARRIAGES.
The marriages during the year were 1132, of .these 978 were
solemnised at the several churches, 96 in other places of worship,
and 58 at the register office. The marriages in 1871 were all but
identical in number, viz., 1131; 805 solemnised in churches, 149
in other places of worship, and 87 at the register office. For
these figures I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Barnes, the
registrar of births and deaths for the Town district, whose
obliging willingness to afford me official information upon all
occasions, I am happy to acknowledge.
DEATHS.

The deaths of males and females respectively are thus seen to be
identical in number, notwithstanding the very large disproportion
of the sexes. The general death-rate was 17.17 per 1000; viz.,
18.1 in the Town district, and 13.3 per 1000 in the Brompton
district; the rate in the male sex being 21.2, and in the female
sex only 14.2, a difference in favour of the latter of 7 per 1000.
The annual rate of mortality of the sexes in all London was
males 23.5, females 19.6; total 21.4 per 1000.
Six hundred and twenty six children died under one year of
age, equal to 15.6 per cent, on the registered births, and to 29.4
per cent on the total deaths. In the Metropolis generally the
deaths of children under one year were only 26.3 per cent, of
the total mortality. Under five years of age, 959 children died,
45.4 per cent, of' all deaths, the per centage in the entire
Metropolis being 43.4. Four hundred and ninety-two persons
died at 60 years of age and upwards, equivalent to 22.7 per cent,
of the total mortality, the deaths at the same period of life in the