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17
Metropolitan
Borough.
Proportion
per cent
of Domestic
Indoor Servants
to Families
or Separate
Occupiers.
Proportion
per cent. of
Wives under 25
to
Total Wives.
Persons
Married
per 1,000,
Unmarried and
Widowed
Persons over 15.
Hampstead 81.4 9.3 28.5
Kensington 80.0 11.4 40.0
Westminster 65.8 11.0 44.7
Chelsea 55.2 10.9 43.4
Paddington 50.2 12.1 47.5
Lewisham 36.2 9.8 —
Wandsworth 35.2 10.5 37.7
Stoke Newington 27.8 105 —
Hammersmith 19.3 13.0 —
Fulham 18.6 12.3 —
Lambeth 18.1 12.5 46.9
Hackney 17.9 13.1 —
St. Pancras 16.9 13.6 50.3
Islington 15.5 13.1 51.7
Camberwell 15.3 11.9 48.5
Woolwich 14.4 14.0 —
Battersea 13.1 12.1 56.4
Stepney 8.8 17.4 60.6
Poplar 8.1 14.8 66.6
Southwark 7.8 15.0 71.2
Bermondsey 6.6 14.4 58.8
Bethnal Green 5.8 16.3 55.7
Shoreditch 57 16.2 57.7
It would appear, then, that in the districts with a relatively
high standard of comfort, comparatively few persons marry,
that those who do marry defer marriage to a later age, and,
having married, bring forth fewer children.
Although in the two preceding tables the metropolitan
boroughs have been taken as separate units of population, it
would be more correct to regard each borough as a congeries of
districts, which, amongst themselves, present differences in
natality, greater probably than those which exist amongst the
individual boroughs. And it is probable that a careful investigation
of these smaller areas, areas occupied by persons of like