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The Marriage Rate was 13.1, an increase of 1.6 per 1,000
over 1902, while the Marriage Rate for the whole of London was
equal to 17.4 per 1,000.
MORTALITY.
The total number of Deaths registered in the Borough
amounted to 1,566, compared with 1,942 for the year 1902.
After deducting the deaths of non-residents (152) dying
within the Borough, and adding those of residents (99) who died
outside the district, a corrected total of 1,513 is obtained, compared
with 1,818 in 1902.
The corrected total deaths, 1,513, is equivalent to a
Death Rate of 11.1 per 1,000 living at all ages, and compares
most favourably with the death rate, 15.2 per 1,000 for the
County of London, and 16.3 for the 76 Great Towns.
Compared with other Metropolitan Boroughs, Lewisham
enjoys the second lowest death rate in London. Hampstead
is the lowest with 10.0, followed by Lewisham 11.1,
Wandsworth 12.4, and Stoke Newington 12.6 per 1,000 of
the population living at all ages.
The districts having the highest death rates in London
were Finsbury, 20.3, Shoreditch, 19.4 and Holborn, 18'6. (See
Tables 12 and 13).
The death rate for Lewisham, 11.1 per 1,000 for the
year 1903, shows a marked decrease compared with 13.7 per
1,000 in 1902, and 13.0 per 1,000 in 1901.
On sub-dividing the corrected deaths into the three
divisions of the Borough, it will be noted that the mortality
rate of the Sydenham and Forest Hill Division, 10.9, was