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bear children, as from 15 to 45 years of age, it will
be found that only one woman in ten has given
birth to a child during the year. In the Eastern
Union the births have amounted to 12 per cent. of
the women, but in the City proper they have been
but 7 per cent. whereas in the rest of London, as
in all England, they amount to 14 per cent. And
again, if we distribute the births among the married
women, who are at from 15 to 45 years of age, we
find that only 23 per cent. of them have borne
children in the year, the normal proportion being
about 27 per cent. Lastly, as an illustration of the
small proportion of births in the City, I may state
that, for every 100 deaths, there have been but 103
births, whereas, in all England, there are 154: in
fact, if it were not for the comparatively large proportion
of births in the Eastern Union, where there
are about 123 births to every 100 deaths, the natural
increase of the City population would be extremely
small. Last year, indeed, it would have declined,
for, in the Central and Western Unions there were
1,789 deaths, and only 1,695 births.
The 2,870 deaths in the City were thus distributed:—1,081
were in the Eastern Union, 784 in
the Western, and 1,005 in the Central, or City
proper. These are in the proportion of 26.1 per
1,000 of the population of the first-named district,
29.3 of the second, and 21.6 of the third, making a