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St Giles (Camden) 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Name of Building.Denomination.Number of Marriages.
Parish Church, St. Giles-in-the-FieldsEstablished Church65
Parish Church, St. George, BloomsburyDitto100
Holy Trinity Church, Little Queen StreetDitto25
Christ Church, Woburn SquareDitto23
Sardinia Chapel, Sardinia StreetRoman Catholic27
Bloomsbury Chapel, Bloomsbury StreetBaptist6
Little Wild Street ChapelDitto3
Kingsgate Chapel, Kingsgate StreetDitto1
Soho Chapel, Shaftesbury AvenueDitto2
Keppel Street ChapelDitto4
Great Queen Street ChapelWesleyan2
Eglise Suisse, Endell StreetSwiss Reformed Church4
Superintendent - Registrar's Office, Broad StreetCivil153
Total number of Marriages415

In Registration London the marriages during the year
were 42,016, and the persons married 84,032, equal to an
annual rate of 18.7 per 1,000 of the population. This is
the highest rate recorded in any year since 1877.
In England and Wales the marriage-rate in 1898 was
16.2 and was higher than the rate in any year since 1876.

Births and Birth-rates.

Registration Sub-Districts.Population (Census 1896).Number of Births.Ratio of Births to PopulationBirth - rate per 1,000.
St. George, Bloomsbury16,1102341 in 68.814.5
St. Giles, South12,9765881 in 22.045.3
St. Giles, North9,1512051 in 44.622.4
St. Giles District38,2371,0271 in 37.226.8