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1890-91.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT.
Gentlemen,
According to the Annual Summary of the Registrar
General for 1890, the marriages registered in London
numbered 36,753, and were in the proportion of 8.3
marriages, or 16.6 persons married, per 1,000 of the estimated
population—a somewhat higher rate than in any of the
three next preceding years, but otherwise the lowest rate
recorded since civil registration began; the births numbered
130,690, being in the proportion of 29.1 annually to 1,000
of the estimated population, which is by far the lowest
birth-rate as yet recorded in London, the rate having fallen
continuously year by year since 1879, when it was 35.5
per 1,000; the deaths numbered 91,243, and corresponded
to an annual rate of 20.3 per 1,000 of the estimated population,
which was a higher rate than in any one of the next
five preceding years. As regards the death-rate the
Registrar General points out that the increase is accounted
for in some measure by the inclusion for the first time in
the London mortality for this year of the deaths of
Londoners that occurred in certain institutions outside the
area of registration London; that these deaths amounted
to 1,502, and that their omission would reduce the death-rate