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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1893
Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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MARRIAGES.
There were 5,306 persons married which represents half that
number of marriages.
The Annual rate of persons married was 16.16 per 1,000 of the
population. In 1892 the rate was 17.14 per 1,000, consequently the
present rate is 0.98 lower than the preceding year.
Table XIV.
| Period. | Marriages. | Persons married. | Persons married, rate per 1,000 population. | 1892. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriages. | ||||
| First Quarter | 439 | 878 | 10.79 | 464 |
| Second | 705 | 1,410 | 17.34 | 736 |
| Third | 819 | 1,638 | 20.14 | 831 |
| Fourth | 690 | 1,380 | 16.97 | 752 |
| Year | 2,653 | 5,306 | 16.16 | 2,783 |
BIRTHS.
There were 9,749 births registered in the Parish. Of these 5,032
were males, and 4,717 females, and the proportion of the latter to the
former was as 93.7 is to 100. This proportion of females to males is
less than in any year since 1881, when it was 92.6. The 9,749 births
were equal to a birth rate of 29.69 per 1,000 of the population. This
rate is only 0.25 higher than in the preceding year, which was the
lowest previously recorded in Islington.
It is a noticeable fact that ever since 1879 the birth rate of the
district has been steadily declining, and it is since then also that
Islington has ceased to augment its population by leaps and bounds.
Growing communities and nations are always remarkable for high birth
rates—just as those that are standing still are noted for low rates. It
is to be noticed, also, that the natural increase of the district has been
only once in twenty-two years so small as in 1893, the excess of births
over deaths amounting to 3,358, namely in 1871 when it was 3,026.