Excerpt from Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England: Abstracts of 1983; Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty The meninges registered in 1883 numbered giving a rate of 15 °4 persons married to 1000 persons living. This was practically the same rate as that recorded in 1882, which was 15 5. Thus the partial recovery in the marriage rate which began in 1880, from the depression that set in in 1874, was nearly maintained. In the following Table means are given for comparing the fluctuations in the marriage-rate with other accepted measures of public well-being; and it will be noted that again, as in most recent years, the marriage-rate has varied in the same direction as the value of British Exports, and as the average price of wheat. That is to say, all three showed a decline in 188 3. A similar decline took place in the amount, per head of population, cleared at the Bankers' Clearing House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.