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MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages registered1 in the Borough during the year was 1,066, as
compared with 1,146 in 1903, 1,156 in, 1902, 1,073 in 1901, 1,157 in 1900 and 1,295 in
1899. It was the smallest number during the past six years. The number of
persons married was at the rate of 18.3 per thousand, as compared witn 17.0 per 1,000
for the whole of London.
DEATHS.

The deaths of males were 114 in excess of those of females. The death-rate was
20.6 per thousand inhabitants*, as compared with 19.6 for last year. Although showing
an increase on that of 1903 it was, nevertheless, below the average for the previous
ten years. The London death-rate was 16.1, that of England and Wales 16.2, Rural
England and Wales 15.3, 76 great towns 17.2, and that of 142 smaller towns was 15.6
per 1,000. Tables giving the death-rates and the causes of death at various age-periods
in Shoreditch and its four Registration sub-districts, together with other information
bearing upon the subject, are contained in the appendix (Tables I., II., IV., V., VI.).
The death-rate was highest in Shoreditch South, and lowest in Hoxton New Town,
being 23.2 in the former Registration sub-district and 19.3 in the latter. The deathrate
remained low and fairly steady for the first six months of the year. Towards the
end of July there was a rapid rise, the rate increasing week by week until a maximum was
reached in the third week of August, when the death-rate mounted to between 37 and
38 per 1,000. In the fourth week of August there was a drop to 24.0, and in the
following week to 16.2 per 1,000. The rate remained low until the beginning of
December, when a rapid rise to 34.8 per 1,000 took place. The next week there was a
fall, but the death-rate remained above the average during the closing weeks of the year.
The high rate of August resulted from the prevalence of summer diarrhoea and measles,
and that of December was mainly due to measles and diseases of the respiratory organs,
chiefly bronchitis and pneumonia.
*Corrected for age and sex distribution the death-rate was 21.6 per 1,000.