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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
[Welland Tribune, 14 March 1872]
We are in receipt of the Annual Report of the Registrar-general of Ontario, upon the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths, in the Province. The period under review is the year ended Dec. 31st, 1870. The Registrar-general admits that the work has been performed very incompletely and is a partial failure. He says: “A comparison of the actual number of registrations with the estimated numbers, shows that about one-third of the births, about two-thirds of the marriages, and one-fifth of the deaths have been registered.” This being the case, the report is unworthy of close analysis, being almost valueless as a guide to matters of information respecting the vital statistics of the Province. In the whole Province, for the term specified, 19,536 births, 8,668 marriages and 6,905 deaths were registered making 35,109 registrations in all. In Welland County, 202 males, 188 females and 1 sex omitted were registered as having been born; the number of marriages returned is 113, and deaths 148. The age of the eldest deceased is stated to have been 108 years.
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