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Islington 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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[1908

Table: Table VIII. Showing the Marriages and the Marriage Rates in the Borough during 1908 and in the preceding ten years.

Table VIII. Showing the Marriages and the Marriage Rates in the Borough during 1908 and in the preceding ten years.

Years.No. persons married.Persons married per 1000, inhabitants.
18986,41019.03
18996,50819.35
19005,93617.67
19005,98817.85
19026,21618.08
19036,10618.00
19045,89617.29
19055,96817.18
19065,92817.18
19075,92417.07
Average of 10 years6,08817.92
19085,56215.63
Decrease on mean5262.29

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BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year was 8,065, of whom
4,447 were males and 4,218 females, as compared with an average of 9,066
in the preceding ten years. These represented a birth-rate of 24.35 per 1,000
inhabitants, as against a decennial rate of 20.6; thus there was a decrease of
401 in the number of births, and of 2.3 in the birth-rate.