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MARRIAGE RATE.
The number of Marriages registered in the Borough during
the year amounted to 843, compared with 891 in 1903.
The Marriage Rate was 12.0, a decrease of 1.1 per 1,000
on 1903, while the Marriage Rate for the whole of London was
equal to 17.0 per 1,000.
MORTALITY.
The total number of Deaths registered in the Borough
amounted to 1,799, compared with 1566, for the year 1903.
After deducting the deaths of non-residents (210) dying
within the Borough, and adding those of residents (90) who died
outside the district, a corrected total of 1,679 is obtained, compared
with 1,513 in 1903.
The corrected total deaths, 1,679, is equivalent to a
Death Rate of 12.0 per 1,000 living at all ages, and compares
most favourably with the death rate, 16.1 per 1,000 for the
County of London, and 17.2 for the 76 Great Towns.
Compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs, Lewisham
enjoys the second lowest death rate in London. Hampstead
is the lowest with 10.2, followed by Lewisham 12.0,
Stoke Newington 13.3, and Wandsworth 13.4 per 1,000 of
the population living at all ages.
The districts having the highest death rates in London
were Finsbury, 21.3, Shoreditch, 20.4, Southwark, 20.l, and
Bermondsey, 20"0. (See Tables 12 and 13).
The death rate for Lewisham, 12.0 per 1,000 for the
year 1904, shows a slight increase over the previous year.