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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
Bermondsey 1929
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1929
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The death rate for 1929 was 14.5 per 1,000 persons living,
compared with 13.2 for 1928.
MARRIAGES.
The total number of marriages in the Borough in 1929 was
994, being 61 below the number for 1928, and 96 below the
average for the last 10 years.
The figures have been supplied by the Superintendent
Registrar. This makes a marriage rate of 17.47 per 1,000 of the
population, compared with a marriage rate last year of 18·32 of
the population, 115,200.
Year No. Rate
1919 1,242 19.19
1920 1,383 21.40
1921 1,084 17·99
1922 l ,008 16 · 64
1923 1,056 17·34
1924 1,015 16·62
1925 1,038 16 · 88
1926 9 94 16 ·15
1927 1,021 16 · 88
1928 1,055 18 · 32
Average for years 1919 —1928 1,090 17·74
1929 994 17 · 47
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