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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1909

Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1909]

Table: Table VIII.Showing theMarriagesand theMarriage Ratesin the Borough during 1909 and in the preceding ten years.

Table VIII.

Showing theMarriagesand theMarriage Ratesin the Borough during 1909 and in the preceding ten years.

Years.No. persons married.Persons married per 1000, inhabitants.
18996,50819.35
19005,93617.67
19015,98817.85
19026,2l618.08
19036,10618.00
19045,89617.29
19055,96817.40
19065,92817.18
19075,92417.07
19085,56215.63
Average of 10 years6,00317.60
19095,53815.77
Decrease on mean4651.83

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BIRTHS.
The births registered during the year were 8,198 in number, of which
7,948 were legitimate, and 250 illegitimate. As regards sex, 4,238 were males
and 3,900 females, so that the males were in the proportion of 107 to every
100 females. These births gave a birth-rate of 23.34 per 1000 of the
population, which is the lowest hitherto recorded in Islington, and, indeed,