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compared with a marriage rate last year of 17·34 of the population,
121,700.
Year.
No.
Rate.
1,236
1914
19·90
1915
1,714
28·12
1916
1,215
19·65
1917
1,015
16·92
1918
1,106
18·21
1919
1,242
19·19
1920
1,383
21·40
1921
1,084
17·99
16·64
1922
1,008
17·34
1923
1,056
Average for years 1914-1923
1,205
19·53
1924
1,015
16·62
Deaths.
In Tables III and IV of Appendix will be found tables dealing
with deaths in the Borough.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough for the
year ended December 31st, 1924, was 1,277, which is 85 more than
in 1923 and 357 below the average for the last 10 years.
When this figure is corrected by exclusion of deaths of nonparishioners
occurring in the district, and the inclusion of deaths
of parishioners occurring outside the district, the number is raised
to 1,657. This is 177 more than in 1923, and 306 less than the
average for the last 10 years.
The death rate for the Borough in 1924 was 13·6 per thousand
living inhabitants, being 1·5 above that recorded in 1923, and 3·0
below the average for the last 10 years.
In column 1, foot of Table I of the Appendix, will be found a
list of places where deaths of non-parishioners occurred in the
district. There were 43 such deaths in all, against 42 in 1923 and
43 in 1922.