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For the purposes of the Registration of Births and Deaths,
the Parish was formerly divided into four Sub-Districts until 1891,
when upon the death of one of the District Registrars the Registrar-General
availed himself of the opportunity to unite the two
Sub-Registration Districts on the North side of Old Street under
name of the City Road District. Towards the end of 1900 a the
further opportunity was taken to unite the Sub-districts on the
South side of Old Street under the name of the Finsbury
District, so that the Parish is now divided into two, known
respectively as the City Road and Finsbury Sub-Registration
Districts.** The later change, however, only having taken
place at the fourth quarter of the year, I propose for the
purposes of this Report to deal with the Statistics in the same
manner as during the past nine years, i.e., by continuing the old
divisions, the population of which is estimated as under:—
Estimated Population Population at
at Midsummer, 1900. Census, 1896.
City Eoad District 29,487 29,897
Whitecross Street District 6,818 7,595
Finsbury District 3,485 4,035
39,790 41,257
Upon the above figures it may be noted that the decrease in
the population, which for several years affected the South side
of Old Street only, is now making itself manifest in the Northern
portion of the Parish also, but to a less extent.
Marriages.
The number of Marriages celebrated in St. Luke during the
year was 233; the number of persons married being in proportion
to 11 "7 per 1,000 of the population. The number of Marriages
for the previous two years was 417 and 260 respectively. The
Metropolitan Marriage rate for 1900 was 17'6 per 1,000 of the
population.
»<> The Registrar for the City Road Sub-Registration District having recently
resigned, the Guardians of the Holborn Union, with the approval of the Registrar
General, decided to unite the two Registration Districts, so that in future there
will only be one Registrar of Births and Deaths, and the whole Parish will constitute
the St. Luke Sub-Registration District.