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The actual numbers and rates are given, together with those for still-births, in Table 2
(page 180). For the years 1940 to 1949, the rates will not agree with those published by
the Registrar-General because the latter are based on the civil population whereas those
quoted are based on an estimated total population—the justification for this divergence
was given in the Report for 1947 and is briefly that births registered in the years in
question included those in respect of non-civilians and the rates would have been
inflated if fathers in the Forces had been excluded from the calculations. Since 1950 home
population has been used as a divisor and the rates shown since that year should be
reduced by 0.1 for a strict comparison with ear her years when total population was used.
Rates based on total population 1935-1949, home population 1950—
The number of marriages registered in London in 1955, was 34,248 or 20.8 persons Marriages
married per 1,000 of the total population—the corresponding rates for 1954 and 1953
were 19.8 and 19.7 respectively.
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