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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 1935 of 99,910.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages registered in Bethnal
Green during 1935 was 920. This is equal to a rate
of 18.4 persons marrying per 1,000 of the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough
during 1935 was 996, and in addition 442 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 1,438 births
(731 males, 707 females). The birth-rate for 1935 was,
therefore, 14.4 births per 1,000 population, the same
as last year, the lowest ever recorded in the Borough.
The provisional birth-rate for London is given as
13.3 and for England and Wales as 14.7.
ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the 1,438 births credited to this Borough, 41
were illegitimate, being 19 males and 22 females, and
being 2.8 per cent, of the total number of births.
STILLBIRTHS.
Forty stillbirths were registered as belonging
to the Borough, being a proportion of 2.7 per cent, of
all births alive or dead.