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BIRTH RATE.
The births registered during the year were 4,869, which is equal
to a rate of 37.7, and is about 0.4 per thousand higher than the birth
rate of the preceding year, and also seven-and-a-half per thousand in
excess of the general Metropolitan rate, which was 30.2. In the
registration sub-districts the birth rates were as under: —
North 38.3
South 39.0
East 36.0
The following table compares the birth-rates for Bethnal Green
and for London by quarters:—
Quarter ending
London.
Bethnal Green.
March
30.3
39.8
June
30.3
37.1
September
29.4
34.4
January 2nd
30.7
39.9
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 229
Second Quarter 354
Third Quarter 358
Fourth Quarter 443
Total 1,384
This total indicates a marriage rate of 10.7 to every thousand
persons ; or, as in each marriage there are two contracting parties,
21.4 per thousand of our population entered the bonds of matrimony.