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In Churches 1077
At Nonconformist Places of Worship 71
At Roman Catholic „ 70
At the Superintendent.Registrar's Office 93
Total 1311
The marriages in the three previous years were : 1871, 1,131;
1872, 1,132 ; 1873, 1,241.
BIRTHS.
The births registered—registration not being compulsory—
were 4,351. The annual birth rate in Kensington was 31.7 per
1,000 persons living , and in the Metropolis 35.7. The births in
the Town sub.district were 3,536, and in Brompton 815: 2,216
males and 2,135 females were born. The males formed about 51,
and the females 49 per cent of the births—104 males being born
to 100 females : about the same proportion as in all England. One
child was born to 31.6 of the population. The birth rate in the
Town sub.district was 33.6, and in Brompton 24.8 per 1,000.
The deficient birth rate, as compared with that of the Metropolis
and England, is the result of the great disproportion in the relative
number of the sexes already alluded to ; the rate, however, is
slightly increasing, as may be seen by reference to Tables 1 and 2
(Appendix.)

DEATHS.
The deaths registered in 1874 were 2,696, viz., 2,102 in the
Town sub.district and 594 in Brompton. After re.distribution of
the deaths in the Workhouse and Hospital (the deaths in the
latter institution remaining as a compensation allowance for the
deaths of parishioners occurring outside the parish), the numbers
in the respective districts stand thus: Town, 2,147; Brompton,
548. The death rate was 19.5 per 1,000 (all London 22.5), the
death rate in the Town sub.district being 20.4, and in Brompton
16.6. Thirteen hundred and forty.seven males died, and 1,349
females; the deaths of females being only two above the males,