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The accompanying diagram (I.) shows the marriage rate in each year since 1850, in relation to
the mean marriage rate of the period 1851-1906.
In the year 1906 among the males 3.5 per cent. married were under 21 years of age, and
among the females 12.9 per cent.; the figures for previous years are shown in the following table,
the proportions in England and Wales being also given for the purpose of comparison. It will be
seen that both in London and in England and Wales the proportion of male and female minors in
every 100 marriages has been diminishing for a number of years :—

Births.
The number of births registered in the Administrative County of London in 1906 (52 weeks)
was 124,880, giving a birth-rate of 26.5 per 1,000 persons living per annum. The steady decline in the
London birth-rate noted in previous reports has continued, and the birth-rate for 1906 is the lowest
recorded rate in London since the institution of civil registration.
The birth-rate in successive periods has been as follows:—

The corresponding figures for England and Wales are shown below:—

The accompanying diagram (II.) shows the London birth-rate in each year since 1850, in
relation to the mean birth-rate of the period 1851-1906.
For the purposes of these rates the births in the principal lying-in institutions have been distributed to
the district to which they belong.