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MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
2,043 marriages were registered during the year, or
593 above the highest number previously recorded.
The marriage—rate, i.e., the number of persons married
per 1,000 inhabitants, was 25.6, the average rate of the
preceding ten years being 16.9.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
Excluding 22 births among non-residents, but including
1.56 children born of Fulham mothers in lying-in
institutions situate in other boroughs, 3,870 births were
registered, 2,004 of boys and 1866 of girls, representing
a birth-rate of 24.3 per 1,000 of the total population
estimated in the usual way, which is the lowest rate
recorded in Fulham, being 3.9 per 1,000 below the
average rate of the preceding ten years.
The following table gives the number of births and the
birth-rates in the various wards, corrected by the distribution
of the births in Maternity Institutions to the wards
in which the mothers resided:—