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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
The number of marriages registered during the year
was 1,353, compared with 1,205, 1,182 and 1,273 in the
three preceding years. The marriage-rate i.e., the
number of persons married per 1,000 inhabitants was
17.7, the average rate for the previous ten years being
16.0.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
Excluding 5 births among non-residents and including
115 children born of Fulham mothers in lying-in
institutions situate in other boroughs, the total number
of births registered in 1911 was 4,122, of whom 2,076
were boys and 2,046 girls, representing a birth-rate of
26.9 per 1,000, which is the lowest yet recorded in
Fulham and 3.9 per 1,000 below the mean of the preceding
ten years.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 24.8 per
1000 and among the several Metropolitan boroughs the
rates, after correction by the distribution of the births in
lying-in institutions to the boroughs in which the mothers
ordinarily resided, ranged from 11.6 in the City of London
and 14.9 in Hampstead to 31.5 in Bethnal Green
and 31.9 in Shoreditch.
The following table gives the number of births and
the birth-rate in the various wards, corrected by the
distribution of the births in Fulham Infirmary and
the inclusion of those occurring in outside Maternity
Institutions:—