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Show More Marriages In England. Many Interesting details as to the marriages 'which took place In England Eng-land and Wales during 1906 are glvea In the . registrar-general's detailed report re-port for that year. There were more of them than in the previous year, but the Increase was not conspicuous in the case of widowers, while there was no increase at all In that of widows. wid-ows. Ae already recorded, tho birth rate was abnormally low, while the death rate was higher for the year. The marriage rate shows an Increase In-crease of 0.3 over 1905, but was 0.2 he-low he-low tho average for the ten years, 1896-1905. The birth rate was the lowest ever ' recorded, being 0.1 less than In 1903 and 1.6 lower than tho decennial average. |