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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE RATE.
The marriages in 1888 were 1,497, and 64 fewer than in
1887. Of these there were celebrated —
By the Church (73.9 per cent, of total marriages) 1,106
At Roman Catholic places of worship 155
At other Nonconformist places of worship 51
At the Superintendent Registrar's Office 185
Total 1,497
The marriage rate, i.e., persons married to 1,000 inhabitants,
was 17. The marriage rate in England and Wales was
14.2 per 1,000, corresponding with the rate of 1887, and being
0.6 below the mean rate in the ten years 1878-87. The
marriage rate in London was 16.1, the lowest rate yet
recorded; the five next lowest rates, moreover, being those recorded
in the five immediately preceding years, 1883-7, in
which the rates were successively 17.9, 17.6, 16.9, 16.6, and
16.3 per 1,000.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The births registered in 1888 were 3,776—males, 1,914,
and females, 1,862: in the Town sub-district, 3,063, and in the
Brompton sub-district, 713. The births in 1887 were 3,941,
or 165 above the number last year, in which the births, 860
below the decennial average corrected for increase of population,
were fewer by 265 than in 1872, when the population was
smaller by 49,000 than in 1888. The birth rate in Kensington,
considerably lower than the London rate (30.7), and that of
England and Wales (30.6),has been declining since 1868, when
it was 331 per 1,000. In 1888 it was 21.3, being 4.9 below