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MARRIAGES.
In this Parish there are fourteen Churches, fifteen Chapels, and
one Registry Office licensed for Marriages : of these there were in the
First Quarter 199
Second Quarter 368
Third Quarter 335
Fourth Quarter 408
Total 1310
This total indicates a marriage rate of 10.2 to every thousand
persons ; or, as in each marriage there are two contracting parties,
20 4 per thousand of our population entered the bonds of matrimony,
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Twenty-seven per cent. of the deaths from all causes were those
of infants aged less than twelve months, for out of 4,771 children
born alive 772 died before reaching the age of one year. This gives
a death rate calculated upon the births of 162.0, while the corresponding
rate for the whole of London was 165.0.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Nearly half of the deaths (1304, that is 47 per cent), were those
of children aged less than five years, this gives a rate of 68.7, calculated
upon the estimated population of young children.
OLD PERSONS DEATH RATE.
The deaths of elderly persons, that is to say those over 65 years
of age, numbered 454. This gives a rate of 60.6 per thousand
calculated upon the estimated population of old persons.