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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
The number of marriages registered during the year
was 1,387, compared with 1,182, 1,273 and 1,353 in the
preceding three years. The marriage-rate, i.e., the num
ber of persons married per 1,000 inhabitants, was 17.9,
the average rate for the ten previous years being 16.2.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
Excluding 8 births among non-residents, but including
142 children born of Fulham mothers in lying-in institu
tions situate in other boroughs, the total number of
births registered in 1912 was 4,213, of whom 2,140 were
boys and 2,073 girls, representing a birth-rate of 27.1
per 1,000 inhabitants, which is 0.2 per 1,000 above that
of 1911, but 3.8 per 1,000 below the mean rate of the
ten years 1902—1911.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 24.5
per 1,000, 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 9.9 in the
City of London, 149 in Hampstead, and 15.3 in
Westminster, to 31.0 in Bermondsey, 31.3 in Poplar,
to 32.3 in Shoreditch.
The following table gives the number of births and
the birth-rates in the various wards, corrected by the
distribution of the births in Fulham Infirmary and
the inclusion of those occurring in outside Maternity
Institutions:-