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Manchester, and Bristol only. The population of Kensington
is to that of London about 1 to 23J, and the rateable value
1 to 161.
MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.
The marriages in 1885 were 1,480, and 18 fewer than in 1884.
Of these there were celebrated—
By the Church (75.5 per cent, of total marriages) 1,118
At Roman Catholic places of worship 138
At other Nonconformist places of worship 65
At the Superintendent Registrar's Office - 159
Total 1,480
The marriage rate was equal to 17.2 per 1,000. The marriage
rate in the country generally was 14.4 per 1,000, the same as in
1879, the lowest on record, and 1.0 below the mean annual rate
in the ten years 1875-84 The marriage rate in London was
16'9, the lowest rate as yet recorded ; and the two next lowest
were those in 1883 and 1884, viz. : 17.9 and 17.6 respectively.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The births registered in 1885 were 4,032—males, 2,049, and
females, 1,983 : in the Town sub-district, 3,243, and in the
Brompton sub-district, 789. The births in 1884 were 4,394, or
362 above the number last year, in which the births, 879 below
the decennial average corrected for increase of population, were
fewer by nine than in 1872, when the population was smaller by
44,000 than in 1885. The birth rate in Kensington, considerably
lower than the London rate (32.6), and that in England and
Wales (33'5), has been declining since 1872, when it was 3l"6
per 1000. In 1885 it was 23.4, being 5'0 below the decennial
average. The rate in the Town sub-district was 25.5, and in
Brompton 17.6. There was one birth to 42.6 inhabitants and
103'3 births of males to 100 of femiles. The births of