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The proportion of baptisms to the population, is, in the eastern division, as 1 in 32; in the western, as 1 in 35; and in the whole district, as 1 in 33. The proportion of deaths to the population, is, in the eastern division, 1 in 65; and in the western, 1 in 49.^[1]

Table 4—Shewing the actual deaths at all ages, in twelve years—from 1813 to 1816, 1823 to 1826, 1830 to 1838 inclusive,—from the registers of the under-mentioned parishes.

	Birth to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	100 to	Total in 12 yrs.
Great Malvern	110	28	44	24	14	18	44	44	37	7	1	371
Little Malvern	6	0	2	3	2	2	5	4	2	0	0	26
Hanley Castle	90	18	27	24	25	26	33	31	32	5	1	312
Welland	25	5	9	8	5	7	6	11	12	1	1	90
Redmarley	31	8	12	5	11	13	17	19	19	0	2	137
Leigh and Brandsford	97	26	27	21	19	25	28	48	33	11	2	334
Madresfield	11	1	1	0	2	2	3	3	4	2	0	29
Newland	5	0	1	4	0	6	5	5	3	0	0	29
Eastern Division	375	86	123	89	78	99	138	165	142	26	7	1328
Ledbury	313	66	89	63	58	81	77	109	70	11	0	937
Colwall	42	16	14	9	10	10	20	19	11	2	0	153
Mathon	33	9	13	10	6	8	14	20	13	2	0	128
Coddington	15	8	7	3	1	8	4	4	3	1	0	54
Cradley	110	28	32	20	16	27	43	39	29	6	0	350
Western Division	513	127	155	105	91	134	158	191	126	22	0	1622
Whole District	888	213	278	194	169	233	296	356	268	48	7	2950

number of very young married persons with large families of little children, who become chargeable upon the several parishes; and, from the above facts, it appears that, in the rural district around the Malvern hills, nearly one-half of such marriages are contracted in the neighbouring large towns—principally (perhaps wholly) in Worcester! An evil, surely, calling for notice and correction, because detrimental to the morals of the parties, by facilitating imprudent and secret matches; and bur then some to the parishes on which their children become chargeable.

1. The proportion of deaths to the population, in the county of Worcester, is 1 in 54. In England and Wales the proportion, as shewn by the registered mortality, ranges from 1 in 41 to 1 in 64; or, as above, in the eastern division, 1 in 65.