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Islington 1896

Forty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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15
BIRTHS.
There were 9,921 births registered in the 53 weeks constituting the
year 1896, of which 5,054 were males and 4,867 females. These were
equal to an annual birth-rate of 28.8 per 1,000 inhabitants, as against
a rate of 29.6 in the preceding year, which was also the mean rate that
had obtained in the five years 1891-5.
It will be seen from the following table that the birth-rate of the
parish does not keep up to the high level of former years. The
causes of the decrease were discusscd in the Annual Report for 1895, and
it is, therefore, now only necessary to notice the fact.
Table VIII.
Periods in
Deeades.
1
Mean Population
in each Decade.
2
Number of
Births in each
Decade.
3
Birth Rates.
4
Average Yearly
Number of Births,
corrected for
Population.
5
1841—50
75,507
20,850
27.61
9,504
1851—60
120,290
41,915
34.84
11,992
1861—70
184,545
67,520
36.58
12,590
1871-80
248,307
89,627
36.08
12,422
1881—90
301,009
97,647
32.43
11,163
1891—95 (5 years)
326,969
48,479
14.82
5,102
The birth-rates of the country and the several populous places
during the year were:—
England and Wales 29.7 per 1.000.
33 Great Towns 30.7 ,,
67 Urban Districts 301 „
London 30.2 „
The Encircling Districts 30.3 „
St. Pancras 28.6 „
Stoke Newington 24.2 „
Hackney 29.5 ,,
Hornsey 20.3 „
Clerkenwell 32.9 „
St. Luke 46.3 „
Shoreditch 35.2 „
Islington 28.8 „
[1896