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annual proportions, as estimated from the number of
the population. Looking, in fact, at the registered
numbers of the last thirty years, it appears that the
fluctuations in the average annual proportions of
marriages, births, and deaths, in the City, during
each of the successive quinquennial periods, have been
as follows:—
Averages per Annum.
1844
to
1818.
Quinquennial Periods from
1869
to
1873.
184!)
to
1853.
1854
to
1858.
1859
to
1863.
1864
to
1868.
Population
127,553
129,922
122,197
114,472
95,538
76,604
Number of Marriages
1,789
1,743
1,722
1,675
1,456
1,249
Rate of do. per 1,000 of pop.
14.02
13.42
14.09
14.3
15.24
16.0
Number of Birtbs
3,579
3,582
3,426
3,163
2,467
1,04
Rate of do. per 1,000 of pop.
28.06
27.57
28.04
27.63
25.82
24.86
Number of Deaths
3,389
3,120
3,086
2,820
2,466
1,870
Hate of do. per 1.000 of pop.
26.57
24.01
25.25
24.63
25.81
24.41
So that the marriages have risen from an annual
proportion of about 14 per 1,000 of the population in
the first named period (1844 to 1848) to rather more
than 16 per 1,000 in the last (1869 to 1873); while
the births have declined from about 28 per 1,000 to
25 ; and the deaths from 26.6 to 24.4.
MARRIAGES.
Of the 1,262 marriages in the City during the past
year, 331 were in the spring quarter, 342 in the
summer, 332 in the autumn, and only 257 in the