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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 1899
Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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21 [1899
The following are the annual rates of persons married per 1,000 of the population in the places mentioned :—
| England and Wales | 16.5 |
| London | |
Table VII.
| Periods. | Marriages. | Persons married per 1,000 of the Population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1841-50 | 6,109 | 1603 | ||
| 1851-60 | 10,901 | 18.12 | ||
| 1861-70 | 16,194 | 17.55 | ||
| 1871-80 | 20,958 | 16.88 | ||
| 1881-90 | 23,324 | 15.49 | ||
| 22,725 | 17.09 | |||
BIRTHS.
There were 9,658 living children born, or 205 more than the
return of the year 1898, but 549 below the corrected average of the
preceding ten years. It is, however, 31 above the average of those
years before correction had been made for the increase in the
population.
The birth-rate was 277 per 1,000 compared with 29.3, which
had obtained during the ten years 1889-98. There has been,
therefore, a decrease of 5½ per cent, on the decennial mean rate. It
is also lower than that which has been noted from other places.
Thus, it is 1.6 per 1000 below the rate of England and Wales, 3.0
below that of the 32 Great Provincial Towns, 1.7 below that of the
67 Lesser Towns, 1.7 below that of London, and 16 below that of
the sanitary areas which encircle the Parish.