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MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated during the year was 1,801. This is equal to a rate
of 9.4 marriages per 1000 of total population, or a rate of 18.8 persons marrying per 1000 of
the population.
The average yearly number of marriages during the preceding five years was 1,949,
equal to a rate of 9.6 per 1000 of population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year belonging to St. Pancras was 2,589,
equal to an annual birth rate of 13.6 per 1000 of population. This is the lowest birth rate
recorded in the Borough.
The rate for the previous year was 13.8, and the rate for 1931 was 15.1.
The actual number of births registered as having taken place in the Borough during
the year was 4,208, but this figure has to be corrected by deducting the births of nonresidents,
which occurred chiefly in various hospitals and other institutions in the Borough—
these numbered 1,969, and by adding the births belonging to St. Pancras which occurred
outside the Borough —these numbered 350. The corrected figure being therefore as stated
above, 2,589.
The corresponding figures for previous years are given in Table 1, on page 106.
The following table gives the number of births and the birth rate in each Ward of
the Borough for the year 1933, and for comparison the figures for the previous year are also
given:—

No less than 2,870 births occurred in Public Institutions in St. Pancras, equal to
68 per cent. of the total births which took place in the Borough.
Table 4, on page 111, shows for 1933 the birth rate of the County of London and of
the Metropolitan Boroughs. The rates for England and Wales and the Great Towns are set
out on page 12.