BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1720, 3 September 1862, Page 9

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND.

The annual report for the year 1860 states the aggregate number of names enrolled in the register books of England and Wales in that year was not equal to the number in 1859; but the decreaie ia not a subject of regret, for it arose chiefly from the fact that the mortality was comparstirely low in 1860. The deaths were 18,000 less than they had been in the previous year; the births were nearly 6,000 leas ; but the marriages were more numerous than they had been either then or at any former time. The men and women married in the year were 340,312, the children born 684,048, the persons of all ages who died 442,721, and together they formed a total of 1,447,081, which, however, does not not consist to its full extent of different persons; for it unfortunately happened to a certain proportion of them, that they were implicated in two out of three events. To many, the first dawn oflife abruptly descended into night. To some the year of marriage was the year of death The facts to which the present report relates belong to the year which preceded that of the census. When the population was enumerated on Aprils, 1861, it was found to be 20,066,224; and that its rate of increase in the last decennium had been 12 per cent. Accept mg these result, in conjunction with another lact which the last four censuses have revealed, viz., that fbe medusa <N rin | fIW

last 40 years, it is estimated tbit the population of England in the middle of tbeyearltyffi waa 19,902,918. It will serve, with a multitude of other facts (bat arft familiar to mbit readers, to giv#* vivid impression of the vitality of the English jttau that whan young men who have barely now ret#hc‘d their majority were born the annual marriage# were about 120,000. and that in 1860 they exceeded 170,000^ The marriage rate was well maintained though the greater part of the year, but Especially, in the apring quarter, when Cheshire and and generally the menufacturing districts, Cpppar to hpo regirded their position with a cheerful spirit. .The avenge manege rate in 2S years was 1 •64 percent, (in other words, 164 persons were married to 10,000 living is the population); but the rate ip lg6Q rose to I*7l. The average birth rate in the Jam.# series of yeera wae 3.311 per cent., whereas the rate in this-year waa 8.437, a sitisfactory remit, though not equal to ; that of 1859. The average death rate was 2,731 per sent., but in 1860 was uneasily healthy, and ita of,.mortality did not exceed 2.124, which is leas than it.h#4 been in any of the 22 years during’ which the Registration Act had been in operation, with the exception of 1843,1845, 1850, and 1836. J The estimated population in 1838 was 15,312,256; the marriages, 118,0671 births (ezolnaive of stillborn) 463,787; deaths, 342,760 ; excess of birth* over deaths 121,027. In 1860 the estimated population waa 19,902,918; marriage*, 170,156; hirtha (exclusive of still-born), 684,048; deaths, 422,721; excess of births over deaths, 261,327.—May 15.