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MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages registered in Bethnal
Green during 1930 was 909. This is equal to a rate
of 16.4 persons marrying per 1,000 of the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough
during 1930 was 1,374, and in addition 581 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 1,955 births (1,031
males, 924 females). The birth-rate for 1930 was,
therefore, 17.7 births per 1,000 population, the lowest
ever recorded in the Borough.
The provisional birth-rate for London is given as
15.7, and for England and Wales as 16.3.
ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the 1,955 births credited to this Borough, 42
were illegitimate, being 21 males and 21 females, and
being 2.2 per cent. of the total number of births.
STILLBIRTHS.
Sixty stillbirths were registered, being a proportion
of 3 per cent. of all births, alive or dead.
This subject is dealt with in a special note in the
maternity and child welfare section of this report.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered during the year
as having taken place in the Borough was 1,197.
Of these, 243 were of persons whose residence was
not in Bethnal Green, dying in Bethnal Green Institutions
or other places in the Borough.