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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 1898
Forty-third annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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23 [1898
MARRIAGES.
There were 6,410 persons married during the year, representing a
marriage rate of 18.57 per 1,000 inhabitants, than which not nearly so
high a rate has been known for many years.
The marriages registered in each quarter were as follows:—
No. Persons
married.
Persons
married per
1,000 inhabitants.
1st quarter 964 11.17
2nd „ 1,682 19.50
3rd „ 2,050 23.77
4th „ 1,714 19.84
The year 6,410 18.57
In the preceding seven years the marriages and the persons married
rate were as follows:.
No. Persons
Married.
Persons married per
1,000 inhabitants
1891 5,482 16.95
1892 0,066 17.14
1893 5,306 16.16
1894 5,388 16.23
1895 5,360 15.97
1896 5,938 17.25
1897 6,000 17.58
1891.97 39,010 16.87