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17.44. During the last ten years the average birthrate
of the City has been 23'57. In the whole of the
Metropolis it has been 35.09; in all England, 35.35;
in France, 26.57; and in Austria, 40.16. The low
birth-rate of the central division of the City is attributable
to the circumstance that the population
consists, in great part, of young unmarried persons,
who are employed in the City warehouses, and perhaps
also to a great falling off in the number of the
population since the census of 1861. This, in fact,
is the explanation of the apparently low birth-rate
of all the districts of the City. There is, however,
a remarkable feature in these statistics, namely, that
notwithstanding the small proportion of births, the
number of marriages is comparatively large: from
which it may be inferred that those who marry in
the City do not remain in it to contribute to its
future population.
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Of the 1,996 chidren born in the course of the
year, 1,014 were males, and 982 females. These
are in the proportion of 1,032 boys to 1000 girls—
the average for the last ten years being 1,036 to
1000. In all England the average proportion is
1,043 to 1000, and in the whole of London it is 1,036
to 1000.
The largest number of births occurred in the
winter quarter, ending in March, and the smallest