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POPULATION.
The Vital Statistics in this report have been calculated
on the estimated resident population of the
Borough at the middle of the year 1936 of 96,900.
MARRIAGES.
The number of marriages registered in Bethnal
Green during 1936 was 797. This is equal to a rate
of 16.4 persons marrying per 1,000 of the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough
during 1936 was 1,071, and in addition 241 occurred
outside the Borough to Bethnal Green residents in
excess of those occurring in Bethnal Green to residents
of other localities, making a total of 1,312 births
(635 males, 677 females). The birth-rate for 1936 was,
therefore, 13.5 births per 1,000 population, the
lowest ever recorded in the Borough.
The provisional birth-rate for London is given as
13.6 and for England and Wales as 14.8.
ILLEGITIMACY.
Of the births credited to this Borough, 43 were
illegitimate, being 21 males and 22 females, and
being 3.3 per cent. of the total number of births.
STILLBIRTHS.
Fifty-five stillbirths were registered as belonging
to the Borough, being a proportion of 4.0 per cent. of
all births alive or dead.