POPULATION. 



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No. 2. BIETHS. 



The grand total of 15,847 births for seven years gives a yearly 

 average of 2,264 : taking the population at 70,000, the ratio is 

 1 per 30*91. But this ratio is evidently too low, owing to the 

 circumstance already mentioned, viz., the great neglect in the 

 registering of births. If we take the towns of Port of Spain and 

 San Fernando jointly on the one part, and the rural districts col- 

 lectively on the other, we arrive at the following results : 1 birth 

 per 31*64 for the two towns, and 1 per 31*14 for the rural 

 districts, as shown in the annexed table. 



No. 3 TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS REGISTERED IN PORT OP 



SPAIN AND SAN FERNANDO JOINTLY, AND THE RURAL DISTRICTS COLLEC- 

 TIVELY, FOR A PERIOD OF SlX YEARS : 



We have here a grand total of 3,877 births for Port of Spain 

 and San Fernando, or a yearly average of 646 births for the six 

 years ; taking now the united population of both towns in 1851, 



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