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POPULATION.
The Vital Statistics in this report have been calculated
on the estimated resident population of the
Borough at the middle of the year 1933 of 104,200.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages registered in Bethnal
Green during 1933 was 806. This is equal to a rate
of 15.5 persons marrying per 1,000 of the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough
during 1933 was 1,034, and in addition 460 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 1,494 births (777
males, 717 females). The birth-rate for 1933 was,
therefore, 14.3 births per 1,000 population, the lowest
ever recorded in the Borough.
The provisional birth-rate for London is given as
13.2 and for England and Wales as 14.4.
ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the 1,494 births credited to this Borough, 44
were illegitimate, being 19 males and 25 females, and
being 2.9 per cent of the total number of births.
STILLBIRTHS.
Thirty-eight stillbirths were registered as belonging
to the Borough, being a proportion of 2.5 per cent of
all births alive or dead.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths during the year belonging