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BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The numbers of births registered in the whole of Bethnal Green
during the year was 4911, a rate of 38.67, which is identical with
that of last year; but it is, as usual, nearly eight per thousand
higher than that of the whole of London for 1892, which was
0.9.
In the Registration Sub-districts the birth rates were as under :—
North 40.04.
South 40.60.
East 35.70.
MARRIAGES.
In this Parish there are fourteen Churches, fifteen Chapels, and
one Registry Office licensed for marriages; of these there were
the
First Quarter 259
Second Quarter 383
Third Quarter 353
Fourth Quarter 452
1447
This total indicates a marriage rate of 11.4 to every thousand
persons; or, as in each marriage there are two contracting parties,
2.8 per thousand of our population entered the bonds of
matrimony.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Two-fifths of the deaths from all causes were these of infants
aged less than twelve months; for out of 4911 children born alive,
79 died before reaching the age of one year. This gives a death
late (calculated upon the births) of 158.6, the corresponding rate