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the proportion of legitimate births per 1,000 married women
living at the ages when they are physiologically capable of
bearing children, that is between the ages of 15 and 45, and the
proportion of illegitimate births per 1,000 unmarried women at
the same ages. I have made this calculation for 23 of the
metropolitan boroughs and the results are set out in the next
table. The figures refer only to the last Census year and the
table includes only 23 of the 29 London sanitary districts. The
figures for the other districts are either not available, owing to
the overlapping of registration areas and sanitary districts, or
are rendered untrustworthy by the presence of large lying-in
hospitals. The districts are arranged according to the
proportion of domestic indoor servants to families or separate
occupiers.