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Hampstead 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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to the acre is 38.1. The proportion of persons to the acre at the Census
of 1911 was 37.7.
At the Census of 1881 the number of persons per acre was 23,
in 1891 it was 30, and in 1901 it was 36.
MARRIAGES.
According to a return kindly furnished to me by the Superintendent
Registrar of Hampstead, it appears that 643 marriages were registered
in the Borough during 1913.
The total number of persons married in Hampstead during 1913
was 1286, which is equivalent to a rate of 14.9 per 1000 of the
population, and is a decrease on that for the year 1912, when the
marriages of 1294 persons were registered, equivalent to a rate of 15.0
per 1000 of the population.
The following Table gives the marriage rates for the years 1902—1912, and the average rate for the decade, 1902—1911:—
| Year. | No. of persons married per 1000 of the population. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 14.4 | |
| 1904 | 15.0 | |
| 1905 | 14.4 | |
| 1906 | 13.8 | |
| 1907 | 15.3 | |
| 1908 | 14.7 | |
| 1909 | 16.0 | |
| 1910 | 14.8 | |
| 1911 | 16.3 | |
| 1912 | 15.0 | |
| Average for the decade | 15.0 | |
| 1913 | 14.9 | |
BIRTHS.
During the year, 1258 births were registered in Hampstead (one
birth was re-registered during the year for legal purposes), an increase
of 34 as compared with the number—1224—registered in the previous
year. Of the total births 654 were of male and 604 of female children.
Tn addition, 71 births of children whose mothers were Hampstead
residents occurred in the principal lying-in institutions, etc., in other