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1903]
MARRIAGES.
There were 6,106 persons married in the Borough during the year, or 201
more than the average of the preceding ten years. These marriages were equal
to a rate 18.0 per 1,000 of the population, which is an increase 0.36 on that
which obtained during the years 1893-1902.
The variations of the marriage rate in the several quarters were very
curious, for during the first quarter it was as low as 10.7 per 1,000, while in
the third it was as high as 22.6. In the second quarter it was 20.9, and in
the fourth only 17.4 per 1,000.
BIRTHS.
The births numbered 8,983, or 231 less than in 1892, and were equal to
a birth rate of 26.48 per 1,000, which is the lowest hitherto recorded in
Islington.
The births comprised 4,653 males and 4,330 females, so that the former
were in the proportion of 1,000 to every 930 of the latter.
The birth-rates varied considerably in the several sub-registration districts,
thus they were as high as 31.82 and 30.36 per 1,000 in Upper Holloway and
Barnsbury and as low as 22.42 and 22.53 per, 1,000 in Highbury and Tufnell;
while in the other sub-districts they were as follows:—24.45 in Tollington,
27.11 in Lower Holloway and 27.06 per 1,000 in Islington South-East (vide
Table XIV.)
In London the birth-rate was 28.5 per 1,000; in the 67 Great Towns
29.7, and in England and Wales 28.4.
An examination of the birth-rates in Islington since 1841 shows that in
the decade 1841-50 the rate averaged 28.65 per 1,000 of the population. This
was succeeded in the next ten years (1851-60) by a rate of 34.54 per 1,000,