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VITAL STATISTICS.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
The area of the Borough is 760 acres. At the
1921 Census there were 18,497 structurally separate
dwellings in the Borough, and 27,596 families or
separate occupiers lived therein. The rateable value
of the Borough on the 31st December, 1925, was
£579,972, and the product of a Id. rate is estimated
at £2,285.
POPULATION.
The population, as estimated by the RegistrarGeneral
in the middle of 1925, was 119,800.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated in Bethnal
Green during 1925 was 945. This is equal to a rate
of 15.8 persons married, or 7.9 marriages, per 1,000
total population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough
during 1925 was 2,199, and, in addition, 431 occurred
outside the Borough to Bethnal Green residents in
excess of those occurring in Bethnal Green to residents
of other localities, making a total of 2,630 births.
The birth-rate for 1925 was, therefore, 21.9 births
per 1,000 population.
The rates for the last ten years are as follows:—
1916 27.3
1917 22.8
1918 19.2
1919 22.4
1920 33.1
1921 25.4
1922 25.2
1923 24.2
1924 22.1
1925 21.9