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Greenwich 1920

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1920

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the number of marriages solemnised in the Parishes of Greenwich
and St. Nicholas The Superintendent-Registrar for the
Woolwich Registration District has also kindly supplied the particulars
for the Parishes of Charlton and Kidbrooke, with the
exception, in these latter particulars, that the marriages performed
in the Woolwich Superintendent-Registrar's Office and in Chapels
in Charlton and Kidbrooke, of residents in those Parishes, are
not included.

Table: The following table shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1910:—

The following table shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1910:—

Year.In Churches of England in Greenwich.In Churches of England in Charlton and Kidbrooke.St. Nicholas Parish Church.Marriages in Superintendent- Registrar's Office of parties resident in Greenwich or outside the Registration District, and in Chapels and Roman Catholic Church in St. Nicholau Greenwich.Total.Approximate Population of the districts concerned.
191030411053243710112935
19113091233423069695982
19122661025922865595992
19132951205125972596015
19142791357224372996037
191547218895406116196385
19163811457432492494452
191734312867653119190440
19183531655524481789939
1919419197763261018102591
192038410564322875104453

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BIRTHS.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough during
the year has been 2,648, but of these 164 occurred in the Greenwich
and Deptford Hospital, the address of the mother being in 49
instances in Deptford, 61 in Lewisham, 13 in Woolwich and one
in Wimbledon. Deducting these and adding 67 which were transferred
from Lambeth, Stepney, St. Pancras, Deptford, Southwark,
Poplar, Lewisham, City of London, Kent County Council, Erith,
Cornwall County Council and Woolwich, it will be seen that the
number of strictly Greenwich births for 1920 is 2,591, of which
1,340 were males and 1,251 females.
This corrected figure gives a Birth Rate of 24.67 per 1,000 of
the population, being 5.48 below the average for the last nineteen
years, 1901 to 1919, the period since the formation of the Metropolitan
Borough.