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The marriages registered during the year, numbered 411,
giving a proportion of 13.7 persons married, to 1,000 of the population.
The annual average number of marriages for the last ten
years was 451, which corresponds to a marriage rate of 15 persons
per 1,000. The marriage rate in London for the year, was 16.3
persons per 1,000.
The registered Deaths, exclusive of those of non-residents
which occurred in Public Institutions situated in the District, but
inclusive of those of residents which occurred in Public Institutions
beyond the limits of the District numbered 1,303 and corresponded
to a death rate of 22.7 per 1,000 population, that of London being
17.4 per 1,000, the lowest death rate as yet recorded, and of
the Eastern Districts 19.6. As regards the Death rate in your
District, it is 2.2 per thousand below the average of the last ten
years.
I am required by the Local Government Board to make a
return of Mortality and Sickness in the District on forms provided by
them. These forms are marked A and B, and appear among the other
tables. Table A sets forth the deaths of the whole of those regi-tered
as having actually occurred in the several localities comprised within
the District; the East London Children's Hospital being regarded
for the purposes of tlie«e statistics as a separate locality.
The Deaths at all ages so divided and distributed are as follows :
Limehouse
539
Ratcliff
282
Shadwell and Wapping
190
East London Children's Hospital
245
1,256
Deaths in Public Institutions outside the
District, but belonging thereto
287
1,543
Deduct 180 for Deaths in East London
Children's Hospital of persons not
belonging to District
180
Corrected Mortality
1,363