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Illegitimate Births


Illegitimate Births As A Percentages
Of All Births By Counties 1845-1848

(Average For England And Wales 6.7%)

Above Average Illegitimacy

%

  Below Average Illegitimacy

%

Cumberland
Norfolk
Hereford
Shropshire
Nottingham
Chester
Westmorland
Suffolk
Derby
Berkshire, Leicester
North Wales
Lancaster, Bedford
Oxford
Northumberland
Hertford, South Wales
Yorkshire
Bucks
Wiltshire, Stafford
Sussex
10.8
10.5
10.0
9.9
9.1
8.9
8.7
8.5
8.1
7.9
7.8
7.7
7.6
7.3
7.2
7.1
7.0
6.9
6.8
  Cambridge, Dorset
Lincoln, Worcester
Gloucester
Somerset
Southampton, Northampton
Essex, Durham

Warwick, Rutland
Kent
Devon
Monmouth
Huntingdon
Cornwall
Surrey
Middlesex
6.6
6.6
6.4
6.3
6.0
6.0
5.6
5.4
5.0
4.9
4.8
4.7
4.4
4.0

Source: London Labour And The London Poor, Volume 4 by Henry Mayhew

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