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St Giles (Camden) 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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The number of marriages being 397, 390, 391, 415 and 382; the
average marriage.rate for five years is 14.7 per 1000.
The marriages in London during 1880 were 34,070.
Births and Birth.rate.
During the four quarters of 1880 there were 1500 children born
in the District, 767 males and 733 females.
The births registered in the three Sub.Districts were as follows:—
St. George, Bloomsbury 394
St.. Giles, South 696
St. Giles, North 410
"Whole District 1,500
and equal to a birth.rate of 28 0 per 1000.
This statement of births does not accurately represent the birthrate
of either the District or its Sub.Districts and requires corrections,
thus 145 of the births, viz., 23 at the Workhouse, Broad Street, and
122 at the British Lying.in Hospital, Endell Street, were children of
mothers who belonged, by previous residence, to various other parishes
in the metropolis, and must therefore be deducted, not only from the
whole district, but also from the Sub.District of St. Giles, South,
where they were registered. These corrections reduce the number of
births in St. Giles, South, to 551, and in the whole District to 1355,
and give an actual birth.rate of 25.3 per 1000.
The following table will show these alterations more clearly:—
Birth.rate in St. Giles and its Sub.Districts in 1880, and the Ratio of Births to Population, &c.
| Registration Sub.Districts. | Population. | Births | Ratio of Births to Population. | Rate per 1,000. | Average Birth Rate per 1,000 for 10 years 1870—79. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. George, Bloomsbury | 17,843 | 394 | 1 in 45.2 | 22.0 | 25.8 |
| St. Giles, South | 19,089 | 551 | 1 in 34.6 | 28.0 | 30.9 |
| St. Giles, North | 16,497 | 410 | 1 in 40 2 | 24.8 | 301 |
| Whole District | 53,429 | 1,355 | 1 in 39.4 | 25.3 | 29.0 |
This birth.rate shows a further decline on the steadily decreasing
rates of the six preceding years and is lower than that recorded in any
year sinoe 1868, when the same rate prevailed.
But it should be borne in mind that the foregoing averages are
based on the Census tables for 1871, while we have good reason to
believe that the population of St. Giles has largely decreased since
that date.
In the year 1880 the number of births in England and Wales was
880,520, and the birth.rate was equal to 34.6 per 1000.