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For Merton the Birth Rate was 23.6, a decline of 4.4 per
thousand population from 1908. The average for the previous
mentioned number of years was 29.8.
For the country the birth rate was 25.6, which was .9 lower
than in 1908, and this is again the lowest on record. Compared
with the average rate of the years 1899.1908, there was a fall in
the birth rate of 2.2 per thousand.
Copies of the Report are required to be sent to the Local
Government Board and the County Council of Surrey, for
whose information many facts will be mentioned which will
no doubt be familiar to members of the Council.
In conclusion, I would like to express my thanks to the
Council for the help they have afforded me, and to their Officers
for the assistance I have received.
In the body of the Report will be seen the nature of Mr.
Pointon.s work, which speaks for itself, but to him is due also
my thanks for the great help I have always had.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
D. A. BELILIOS, D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.