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MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages celebrated (luring the year was 1,749. This is equal to a rate
of 9.0 marriages per 1000 of total population, or a rate of 18.0 persons marrying per 1000 of
the population.
The average yearly number of marriages during the preceding five years was 1,987,
equal to a rate of 9 5 per 1000 of population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered during the year belonging to St. Pancras was 2,687,
equal to an annual birth rate of 13.8 per 1000 of population. This is the lowest birth rate
recorded in the Borough.
The rate for the previous year was 15.1, and the rate for 1930 was 15.4.
The actual number of births registered as having taken place in the Borough during
the year was 4,224, but this figure has to be corrected by deducting the births of nonresidents,
which occurred chiefly in various hospitals and other institutions in the Borough
(these numbsred 1,936) anrl by adding the births belonging to St. Pancras which occurred
outside the liorough (these numbered 396). The corrected figure being therefore as stated
above, 2,684.
The corresponding figures for previous years are given in Table 1, on page 100.
The following table gives the number of births and the birth rate in each Ward of
the Borough for the year 1932, and for comparison the figures for the previous year are also
given:—

No less than 2,766 births occurred in Public Institutions in St. Pancras, equal to
65 per cent. of the total births which took place in the Borough.
Table 4, on page 105, shows for 1932 the birth rate of England and Wales, the County
of London, the Metropolitan Boroughs, and certain of the large towns having populations
exceeding 125,000.