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Hampstead 1914
Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The total number of persons married in Hampstead during 1914
was 1,650, which is equivalent to a rate of 19.0 per 1000 of the population.
This is the highest marriage-rate that has obtained for very
many years, and I am informed by the Superintendent Registrar that
this increase is due in no small measure to the number of marriages that
took place of sailors and soldiers. In 1913, the marriages of 1,286 persons
were registered, equivalent to a rate of 14.9 per 1000 of the population.
The following Table gives the marriage rates for the year: 1902—1912, and the average rate for the decade, 1904—1913.
| Year. | No. of persona married per 1000 of the population. |
|---|---|
| 1904 | 15.0 |
| 1905 | 14.4 |
| 1906 | 13.8 |
| 1907 | 15.3 |
| 1908 | 14.7 |
| 1909 | 16.0 |
| 1910 | 14.8 |
| 1911 | 16.3 |
| 1912 | 15.0 |
| 1913 | 14.9 |
| Average for the decade | 15.0 |
| 1914 | 19.0 |
Births.
During the year, 1,213 births were registered in Hampstead, a
decrease of 45 as compared with the number—1,258—registered in the
previous year. Of the total births 610 were of male and 603 of female
children. In addition, 63 births of children whose mothers were
Hampstead residents occurred in lying-in institutions, etc., outside the
Borough, and three of the births registered in Hampstead belonged to
other districts, and should be deducted from the total. This information
is supplied to me at the close of the year by the Registrar-General, with
whom an arrangement has been made for furnishing me with quarterly
returns giving details of the births of children whose mothers were
Hampstead residents, that occur outside Hampstead, but in the
Metropolis. After these corrections have been made, the nett number