|registered.|marriages. |marriages.
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London, | | |
Metropolitan | | |
Districts | 33,155 | .55 | .73
Urban Districts| 22,346 | .71 | .95
Rural Districts| 13,391 | .79 | 1.05
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Total | 68,892 | .64 | .85[A]
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[A] Cf. Mulhall, .75 per cent, _supra_, p. 18.

In regard to the frequency of marriage between kin more distant than
first cousins figures are still more difficult to obtain. The
distribution of 514 cases of consanguineous marriage from genealogies
was as follows:

TABLE VII.
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| First | 1-1/2 |Second | 2-1/2 | Third |Distant|
|cousins|cousins|cousins|cousins|cousins|cousins|Total
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Same-name | 70 | 24 | 49 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 208
Different-name| 96 | 30 | 58 | 22 | 37 | 62 | 305
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Total | 166 | 54 | 107 | 41 | 57 | 88 | 513
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Obviously this cannot be taken as typical of the actual distribution
of consanguineous marriages, since the more distant the degree, the