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Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1907]
MARRIAGES.
The number of persons married registered in 1907 was 5,924 which cor
responds to a rate of 17.07 per 1,000 of the population.
TABLE VII.
Showing the number of Persons Married and the Marriage Rates in the
Borough in 1907.
No. persons
married.
Persons married
per 1,000
inhabitants.
1st quarter
1,280
14.75
2nd „
1,296
14.93
3rd „
1,848
21.30
4th „
1,500
17.29
The year
5,924
17.07
These figures compare with a yearly average of 0,095 persons married, and
a rate of 17.00 per 1,000 inhabitants during the ten years 1897-1906.
The record of marriages in Islington since 1841, given in decades and as
abstracted and collected from the Registrar-General's annual reports is as
follows:—
Table VIII.
Showing the Marriages and Marriage Rates in Six Decennial
Periods, 1841-1900, and in 1901-1907.
Periods.
Marriages.
Persons married
per 1,000 of the
Population.
1841-50
6,109
16.81
1851-60
10,901
17.96
1861-70
16,194
17.84
1871-80
20,889
17.06
1881-90
23,322
15.55
1891-1900
28,947
17.44
1901-07 (7 years)
21,013
17.60
1907
5,924
17.07