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Amongst those occurring in the Haggerston sub-district are included 87 births
which took place in the Shoreditch Workhouse Infirmary.
In the New Town sub-district are included 99 births which took place in the
Holborn Workhouse, the mothers not belonging to this parish; deducting these,
which consisted of 49 males and 50 females, the birth-rate was 34.5 per 1,000
inhabitants, that of London being . The Shoreditch birth-rate for last year was 35.5,
and that of London 31.0.
For a comparison of the birth-rates in the several sub-districts of the parish see
Table XXIII.
MARRIAGES.
The Superintendent Registrar has kindly informed me that 1,036 marriages were
registered within the parish during the year ending December 31st. 1894. This
number gives a rate per 1,000 inhabitants of 8.4.
In the previous two years the figures were as follows:—

DEATHS.
The corrected number of parishioners who died during the year amounted to
2,460, as compared with 3,146 in 1893, 2,828 in 1892, and 3,042 in 1891.
The deaths were distributed thus:—

The corrected death-rate for the parish was 20.14 per 1,000 inhabitants, being
2.96 per 1,000 below the average for the past 10 years, as compared with a death-rate
for the whole of London of . In table XXIII. the death-rates for London and
Shoreditch, with its sub-districts are shown, so that comparisons can readily be
made.