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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 1915

Sixtieth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1915
Persons married, decennial average,)
1902- 1911 ) 5,856 17.71 per 1,000 inhabitants
,, in 1912 6,182 18 94 ,,
,, in 1913 5,968 17.98 ,,
,, in 1914 6,376 19.59 ,,
,, in 1915 8,504 2612 ,,

Table: Table II.Showing the number ofPersons Marriedand theMarriage Ratesin each quarter of1915and in1914.

Table II.

Showing the number ofPersons Marriedand theMarriage Rates

in each quarter of1915and in1914.

Quarters.No. persons married.Persons married per 1,000 inhabitants.
1915.1914.1915.*1914.
First1,20891214.8411.20
Second2,2981,56028.2319.17
Third2,4821,93030.5023.72
Fourth2,5161,97430.9124.26
The Year8,5046,37626.1219.59

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* These rates are calculated on estimated population 1914, vide Table I., p. 2.
BIRTHS.
Births, 7.537; Birth Rate, 23.15.—Of this number 133 births
occurred in districts outside the borough, which were transferred by the
Registrar-General to Islington, where the parents resided. The number of
births actually registered in the borough was 7,404, as contrasted with
8,0(i0 in the preceding year. The birth-rate, inclusive of the transferred
births, was 23.15 per 1,000 inhabitants, which is the actual birth-rate of the
borough. The rate arising from the births registered in the district was 22.74
per thousand, whilst the return in 1914 was 24.82. These figures are considerably
below those registered in past years, and the birth-rate for the