NATURAL HISTORY. 
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The marriages, baptisms, and burials in the follow- 
ing periods stand thus — 
For the ten years from 1801 to 1810, For the ten years from 1811 to 1821, 
Marriages, 12,165. Marriages, 13,178. 
Baptisms, Males 23,865, Females 23,175. Baptisms, Males 27,457, Females 26,381. 
Burials, 15,004, 15,298. Burials, 16,819, 16,722. 
By a table inserted in the Comparative Account 
of the Population of Great Britain," calculated upon 
an average of the totals of baptisms, burials, and 
marriages in the five years preceding the several 
enumerations of 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831; it 
appears, as respects Worcestershire, that in 1801, the 
population being 139,333, the burials were 1 in 46 ; 
in 1811, the population was 160,546, the burials 
were 1 in 52 ; in 1821, the population was 134,424, 
the burials were 1 in 53 ; and in 1831, the popula- 
tion being 211,400, the rate of mortality was 1 in 
52/ 
This increase of population has taken place princi- 
pally in the towns of the county, which are twelve in 
number ; and more especially in those where manu- 
factories are extensively carried on. In many of the 
agricultural parishes, so far from there having been 
any increase of population, the number of inhabitants 
has decreased. With respect to the towns of the 
county, the following is a statement of the population 
at the periods of 1801, 1811, 1821 and 1831— 
^ In Capper's " Topographical Dictionary" it is stated that " the average scale 
of mortality for ten years, according to the registered burials, appears to have been 
as 1 to 56 of the population." And this was probably the case before the decrease 
of the rural population and the increase of the towns. 
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