There were nearly 6,000 more boys than girls born in' England and Wales during the June quai ter of this year. The figures we Boys, 127,238; girls, 121,407.
The proportion works out at eight more boys per 1,000 than girls in the same quarter for the past ten years.
The figures issued by the Registrar General reveal further iuteresting facts. While some of thi 96 great towns of the country maintain an average birth-rate, there are others who have contributed to posterity in a remarkable manner.
Stockton-on-Tees heads the list with a birth-rate of per 1,000. Then Sunderland, with 38.0; and then Gillingham, with 35.8.
The one part of London to distinguish itself is West Ham, which has provided the country with 2,456 children in the quarter—a rate of 32.8 per 1,000; while the lowest is Hornsey with 439 births—a rate of 17.9 per 1,000, Apparently the places where people die more rapidly and in greater numbers are West Hartlepool with 19.9 per 1,000 population, Sunderland with 18.1, and Stockton-on-'Tees with 18.0.
At Eastbourne and Oxford deaths are at the rate of 8.1 and 8.0 per 1,000 respectively, and it is clear that the best London suburb to live in is Ilford, where people die at the rate of §.1 per 1,000, as against West Ham with 11.8.
There a great drop in mar-nages, there being 64,900 fewer than in the previous quarter, Deaths in England and Wales were 18,354 fewer than in the first three months of the year, but 10,823 more than in the second quarter of 1919.
In the United Kingdoui 335,511 births and 175,444 deaths were registered in the three months ended March 31. The natural increase of population was therefore 160,067. The number of persons married in the United Kingdom during the quarter was 176,208.
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