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BIRTHS.
Of the 336 births registered during the year, 187 were
males and 149 were females; two were returned as illegitimates.
The number registered last year, with a smaller population,
was actually greater. The rate of 24 per thousand
is very low, and compares with 25.6 for England and Wales
as a whole, and 24.8 for the 143 smaller towns.
The steady decline in the rate for the whole country continues,
anjd the comparatively low rate of the year 1908 of 26.5
is now further reduced to 25.6.
DEATHS.
The total number was again 100, this including the deaths
of Merton residents at the Union Infirmary and other public
Institutions, as recorded in Table I. Communications have
been addressed to the Medical Officers of Health of the
Districts in which the various London Hospitals are situated,
for information of deaths of our inhabitants. The rate was
7 per thousand, as against 7.9 in 1908.