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-n- -=' HEALTH OF MERTHYR. DR. DUNCAN'S ANNUAL REPORT. LOWEST DEATH RATE ON RECORD. Dr. Alex. Duncan, the medical officer of health for Merthyr, has ju-st issued his report on the sanitary condition of the Borough for the year ended December 26th last. From it we make the following extracts:— The estimated population of the Borough in ths middle of the yea.r IGOo was 77,219. This is the estimate of the Registrar-General, and is arrived at by assuming that the annual increase during the decade is the same as during the la-t intercensal period. This figure is blcw that obtained by estimating the population from the number of inhabited houses, but as the matter has been referred to in previous reports, I will not dilate on it at present, more especially as the birth and d?ath rates are ha-(-,d on the R-egistrar-GineraFs figure The ndundin- crease of the population, that is, the excess of births over deaths, amounted to 1.291, a corn. pared with 1,134, the increase riven by the Registrar-General. Thi.> method of estimating tho population is, however, fallacious, a-s no account is taken of loss or gain by emigration and immigration respectively. Births: Num- ber registered: 1903. 2.736. 1907, 2.727: 19C6. 2.714. Rate per 1.00C inhabitants: 1903, .55.4: 1907, 35.8: H'tG6. 36.2. The total number of births registered in the Borough was 2,7^6— 1,378 males and 1.358 females. The births were distributed as follow: Uppe.r Registration Dis- trict, total. 1.46^ (males. 748; females, 720): Lower Registration District, total, 1.268 (malf* 630 females 638). The" birth rate for En-riand- andr Wales for tho year 1907 was 26.3 per 1,000, and was the lowest on record, so that we are 9.1 per 1,000 ahov" that. figure. Whether, in view of our large infantile mortality, th's is a matter for coniratulation may be doubted, as the Registrar General has cited evidence to show tha.t moderate birth rates associate with low mortality among the children, are more effective in the upkeep of. population than are high birth-rates as-ociated with excessive child mortality. The' birth rate for 1901 is 2 2 per 1.000 less than that of the decennial mean, so that the decline which affected the whole of Ensrland and Wales is manifesting itself with us, though, so far. to a much less degree. Sixty- five illegitimate births were registered during the year. compared with ninety iast year. This givs a rate of 23.7 per 1.000 births comnared with 39.4 for the whole of England and Wales for the year 1907.

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