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As already stated, the ascertained population of the Parish at
March, 1896, was 41,527, and upon this number is calculated
the Statistics of Marriages, Births and Deaths, contained in this
Report.
The number of Marriages celebrated in St. Luke during the
year was 252 (against 118 for the previous year), the number
of persons married being in proportion to 12.1 per 1,000 of the
population, and an increase on the year 1895 of 6.7 per 1,000,
and if, as is frequently asserted, a high marriage rate is evidence
of prosperity, our district is to be congratulated. The Metropolitan
marriage rate was 18.0 per 1,000, and which is the highest
rate recorded in any year since 1883.
Births.
The Births registered in the Parish during the year 1896
numbered 1,958, 1,010 being boys and 948 girls, of these 482
children were born in the City of London Lying-in Hospital,
but as only 33 of the mothers were permanent residents of the
Parish of St. Luke, a deduction of 449 has to be made from the
total number, leaving 1,509 as the actual number of Births
to be credited to the Parish, and after allotting 33 to the several
districts of the Parish in which the parents resided, the Births
of the respective sub-districts were as follows:—
In the City Road Sub-Registration District there were 1,171;
in the Whitecross Street Sub-registration District there
were 254, and in the Finsbury Sub-registration District there
were 84. In relation to the estimated population the figures
stand as under:—
Births per 1000
Inhabitants.
For the whole Parish 36.34
City Eoad Sub-registration District 39.16
Whitecross Street „ ,, 33.44
Finsbury „ ,, 20.81
After a series of years during which there hael been a steady
decline in the number of Births, an increase took place during
the year 1894, and the same occurred even to a greater extent
during the past year, as is shown in the Table below. This increase
is found to concern chiefly the City Road District, in
which 36 Block of Artizans Dwellings, accommodating 845
families, are situated.