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The Borough comprises 4,706 acres, having a population
of 6.3 persons to the acre.
BIRTHS.
The births during the year were 707, of which 379 were
males and 328 were females. This gives a birth rate of
23.7 per 1,000, compared with a rate of 27.2 for England
and Wales, and 28.3 for the Outer Ring of London.
The mean birth rate for 10 years, 1895-1904, was 23.7,
against 29.0 for England and Wales in the same period.
The Outer Ring is that portion of the Metropolitan Police
District which is outside the district of Registration London,
and includes such districts as Croydon, Wimbledon, Richmond,
Beckenham, Uxbridge, Harrow, Enfield, and Walthamstow,
many of which may be fairly compared, from a
health point of view, with our own district.
Our birth rate is the same as the mean for the last ten
years, but it is very low. This is partly to be explained
by the fact that Bromley is a residential locality where large
numbers of unmarried servants are employed, and that many
of the residents are of middle age, having moved out here
from the districts nearer London, in which the earlier and
reproductive years of their married life were spent.
21 illegitimate births were registered, i.e., 2.9 per cent,
of the total number of births. This includes 7 births in the
Union.
MARRIAGES.
During the year there were registered 217 marriages, of
which number:—