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[1911
a political economist to teach them the simple fact that it costs more to house,
clothe, and feed two human beings than one. Therefore, men do not marry at such
times, but postpone the rite until trade is good and prosperity has come again.
Such a time has come to Islington, for the marriage rate, els stated, is practically
at the level of the preceding ten years.
It is quite true that in the early part of the year the marriage rate was
very low, being only 9.63 per 1,000 of the population in the first quarter. This
rate was all the more extraordinary, because in the fourth quarter 1910, it was
19 24, and in the third quarter of the same year 21.80. It is, therefore, difficult
to account for so sudden and large a decrease; although, as a rule, the number
of marriages in the first quarter is below the average for the other quarters of
the year. It is a curious fact that the marriage rate for the first and second
quarters of 1911 taken together was almost the same as the similar rate in
1910, viz. : 14.71 per 1,000 of the population in 1910, and 14 01 in 1911.

The record of marriages in Islington since 1841, given in decades as
abstracted and collected from the Registrar-General's annual reports is as
follows:—