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39

VI. PERIODICAL RETURNS.

REGISTRATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

No. I.-ENGLAND AND WALES.

MARRIAGES-TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1895.

BIRTHS AND DEATHS-To 31ST DECEMBER, 1895.

A.-Serial Table of MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS, returned in the Years 1895-89, and in the QuARTERS of those Years.

Calendar YEARS, 1895-89:-Numbers.

Years.......

'95.

'94.

Marriages No.

-

'92.

'91.

'90.

'89.

'93. 226,109 218,689 227,135 226,526 223,028 213,865 Births........ 921,860 889,242 914,572 897,957 914,157 869,937 885,944

Deaths

60,603 53,443

59,958

58,928 52,678 59,180 55,741 60,001 58,539 58,264 58,651 57,143 53,820 64,982 60,979 66,078 65,994 65,800

63,298

(II.) BIRTHS:-Numbers.

March........ No. 240,455 228,808 231,133 219,999 229,133 225,640 220,296

233,207 220,861 235,334 232,329 239,480 220,060 227,641 231,724 215,868 229,396 228,771 224,580 220,769 | 220,341 216,474 223,705 218,709 216,858 220,964 203,468217,666

last day of March........ No. 170,501 147,992 144,291 182,614 157,987 165,318 139,344 June 130,411 118,612 | 133,064 132,080 171,842 128,625 124,434 September 133,569 107,503 143,555 116,008 116,690 122,515 122,362 December 134,277 124,408 149,048 128,982 141,406 145,790 132,213

Annual Rates of MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, and DEATHS, per 1,000 PERSONS LIVING in the Years 1895-89, and in the QUARTERS of those Years. Calendar YEARS, 1895-89:-General Ratios.

31.1

18.2

ried

Births

30.3

Deaths....

31°2 29.6 30.8 30.5 31.4 30.2 18.7 18.9 16.6 19.2 19.0 20.2 19.5

March

June....

September

December

32.1 32°0 30.9 31.5 30.0 32.0 31.8 31.4 30.8 32°0 29.5 31.7 31.7 33.0 30.7 32.1 30.2 30.8 28.5 30.7 30.9 30.7 28.3 30°2 29.5 29.2 29.3

30.6 30.5

30.1 28.1

30.4

B.-Special Town Table:-POPULATION; BIRTH-RATE and DEATH-Rate in each Quarter of 1895, in THIRTY-THREE Large Towns.

Cities and Borouglis.

Estimated
Population in

the Middle

Annual Rate to 1,000 Living during the Thirteen Weeks ending

Births. Deaths. Births. Deaths.

Thirty-three towns 10,591,530

33.5

London*

West Ham

32.5 37.7

25°2 31.5 17.8
4,392,346
26.0 30.8 16°7
30.4
249,473
20'6 33.5 15.6 33.1
114,923 25.7 20'4 25.8 12'4
119,604 26.4 28.8 25.6 16°5
174,751 30.5 23°5
26.4 14'4
89,096 32.5 26.2
28.1 19'4 28.9 16°7
228,139 31.5 24°5 28.9 16.4 28.7 14'4
155,637 35.8 22'4 34.9 15°2
97,008 35.2 22.2

31.1 20°2 29.3 19'4

18.6

28.5 18.0

19°1

33.0 16.2

107,469 34.1 23°1
503,967 39.6 34°I 37.5 24'4 36.4 28.2
119,337 36.0 26°3
524,865 36.6 27°5
208,253
37.4 26.1
21.6 36.2 27.2
141,079 28.6 25.8 26.8 19'9 28.9 20'0
99,591 34.1 24°3
34.4 2224 31.6 24'6
127,615 33.3 21°9
31.6 20'4
30.9
25°0 26.7
112,638 36.9 27'9 33.9 21.8 34.4 26.1 28.5 198

30.9 17'7 30.5

18°3 27.2 19°1 33.9 28.4

2389 33.0 25.6

2321 33.1 24.8 29.5 21.8 31.8 2379

34.7

27'7

25.7

22.2

28.3

22 2

29'9

95,871 36.9 21.9 34.1 17'0 35.3 1996 32.0
207,021 32.4 23°5 32.6 18.3 30.2 1977 29.5 20 ̊4

* Including deaths of Londoners in the metropolitan workhouses, hospitals, and lunatic asylums situated outside Registration London, but excluding deaths of persons not belonging to London occurring in Highgate Small-Pox Hospital, in the London Fever Hospital, in the Metropolitan Asylum Board hospitals, and in the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, within Registration London. The provincial towns have been similarly corrected.