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be built upon, are the Cemeteries at Kensal Green and at West
Brompton. The number of inhabited houses at the middle of 1880
was 20,700 showing an increase in the 12 months of 487.
MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.
The number of marriages in 1880 were 1,483. Of these there
were celebrated
By the Church 1,199
At Roman Catholic places of worship 91
At Nonconformist places of worship 50
At the Superintendent Registrar's Office 143
Total 1,483
The marriage rate, i.e., persons married to 1,000 population,
was 18.5.
It will be seen on reference to Table 1, Appendix, that the marriages
in 1880, although 55 more than in 1879, were only 66 above the
number in 1876, notwithstanding that the population had increased
by many thousands. Nevertheless the marriage rate is considerably
above that of the country generally, 15 per 1,000. Despite
the high marriage rate, Kensington has a low birth rate, resulting
from that disproportion in the relative numbers of the sexes, to
which reference has already been made.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
Four thousand six hundred and five live births were registered
in 1880, viz., males, 2,328, and females, 2,277: in the Town subdistrict,
3,748, and in Brompton, 857,—the same number as in
1878 notwithstanding an increase in population to the extent of
6,100, and 185 fewer than in 1879. The decrease in the Town
sub-district was 109, and in Brompton 76. The birth-rate, 28'9
per 1,000, was considerably below the Metropolitan rate, 36.2; and
that of all England and Wales, 34.5; also being 2.5 per 1,000
below the decennial rate. The rate in the Town sub-district was
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