MEDICAL SURVEY OF THE TOWN OF TAYTAY. 



VIII. VITAL STATISTICS. 



By Paul Clements/ 

 {From the Bureau of Health.) 



As will be seen from the accompanying map (Plate III), the extreme 

 dimensions of the town of Taytay are approximately a kilometer from 

 north to sonth, and, including the extension of the town along the roads 

 to Cainta and Antipole, about 14 kilometers from east to west. In this 

 area there ai'e over twelve hundred occupied dwellings on twenty-five 

 streets. The streets have no names and the houses are not numbered, 

 although the town is divided into four barrios — Dolores, San Juan, San 

 Isidro, and Santa Ana. It was soon found that knowing the name of 

 the barrio in whicli a patient lived was of little assistance in locating 

 him afterwards in ease he failed to retvirn to the clinic. It was also 

 realized that the official returns of the census of 1903, already six years 

 old, did not afford a reliable foundation npon which to base statistics. 

 The listing and enumeration of the population was therefore undertaken 

 both for the purpose of procuring information which would enable tis to 

 trace" patients and of ascertaining as exactly as possible the size of the 

 ])0])u]ation with which we were dealing. In the course of preparing 

 this census, however, it was found that many cases of disease came to our 

 notice in this way which would otherwise have escaped ns and we 

 regretted afterwai'ds that it was not undertaken at the very Ijeginning of 

 the work in the town and pushed to completion before otlier studies were 

 begun. 



Our census deals only with the luain ])ortion of the town, and does 

 not include the barrio of San Jose which is located about 2 miles to the 

 southeast. Our results indicate a slight gain in population since 1303; 

 the district covered by the censiis at that time h;id a i)0|)ulati(>n of 5.8 M), 

 and has at pi'esent one of 6,094. 



The excess of females sho\m by the census of 1903 is still main- 

 tained. In that year there was an excess of 163 females in a popula- 

 tion of 6,067 for the entire niuuiciyialitv. The present census in the 



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