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the births and the deaths have fallen below it; and
it is remarkable that the increase of marriages is
entirely in the Central districts, where the births
and the deaths have been so notably diminished. In
the whole of the City the proportion of marriages
in the year has been but as 1 to 20 adult males,
and 1 to 22 adult females; and there have been 14
marriages to every 1,000 of the population: the
proportion in England being but 8 to the 1,000,
and in London about 9.7.
The distribution of the births in the several
districts has been as follows:—1,419 in the Eastern
Union, the average being 1,467; 804 in the
Western, to an average of 790; and 1,037 in the
Central, to an average of 1,246. The proportion
of males has been only a little above that of
females, the number of the former being 1,632, and
of the latter 1,628; which is as 100.2 is to 100.
In England generally it is as 105 to 100. Again;
the proportion of births in the City to that of childbearing
women between the ages of 15 and 45 has
been but as 9 to 100, whereas in the whole of
England it is as 14 to 100.
It is satisfactory to know that the number of
deaths for the year is not only below the general
average for the last decennial period, but it is even
below the average for that time when the two