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"The diseases shewing excessive mortality over the whole
Metropolitan area are Diarrhœal Diseases, Measles, Cancer,
Premature Birth, Diseases of the Circulatory System, and Urinary
Diseases. The mortality from these diseases seems to be regularly
and persistently increasing year by year. This increase is not
peculiar to London, but is shared by the whole country. On the
other hand, the diseases shewing diminished mortality are Tubercular
Diseases, Diseases of the Respiratory System, Whooping
Cough, all kinds of Fevers, and Small Pox, and Diseases of the
Nervous System. The Registrar General expresses a hope that, as
the diminution in the mortality from these diseases has been going
on for some years, it will be permanently maintained."
MARRIAGES.
In this parish there are 14 Churches, 15 Chapels, and 1 Registry
Office licensed for Marriages: of these there wore in the
First Quarter 439
Second Quarter 646
Third Quarter 563
Fourth Quarter 767
Total 2415
This total indicates a marriage rate of 18.59 to every thousand
persons; or, as in each marriage there are two contracting parties,
37.18 per thousand of our population entered the bonds of
matrimony.
Forty-nine of these weddings were purely civil contracts, and
required the presence of the Registrar; 22 of them took place in
Chapels, and 27 at the Registrar's Office.