Excerpt from Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England: Abstracts of 1881 The marriages in 1881 numbered giving a rate of 15 1 persons married to 1000 persons living. With the single exception of 185 3, the marriage-rate was at its maximum in 1873, in which year it reached 17 '6. From that date it fell continuously, year by year, to 1879, when it was at its minimum, and as low as In 1880 it began to recover from this long depression, and was 149; and in 1881 a still further slight provement occurred, and the rate, as already stated, rose to 15 1. 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.