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HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ENGLAND'S FALLEN

BIRTH-RATE.

HALVED SINCE 1876.

From the Registrar-General's detailed analysis of the statistics relating to births, marriages, and deaths in England and Wales In 1925, the salient features of which have already been published, the fact emerges, that, as a result of the continuous shrinkage in the birth-rate, coupled with an ap proximately constant death-rato during the last few years, the nat- urat increase of population by ex- cess of births over deaths ia atcad- ily falling. In this connexion it may be recalled that, as recorded Inat month, the return, for the first quarter of the present year show- ed an actual excess of deaths over births.

Since 1920, when it rose to 25.5 per thousand, the decline in the birth-rate has been continuous. The considerable fall in the year under review was succeeded by an equally significant decrease in 1926, and it is difficult, comments the Registrar-General, to assign limits to the decline and to dia- cern when and where the trough of the present depression is likely to be reached.

"The birth-rate in this country

SATURDAY, JULY 9,

1927.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

THE CLOSING FUND REACHES

£175,000.

A few weeks ago the Dean of Westminster and the Trustees of what is now commonly known as the 'Dean Ryle Fund announced that on St. Peter's Day, June 29 next, that fund would be closed, says the Times of mail week. The fund was opened on St. Peter's Day, 1920, with a donation from the King of £1,000, and other large gifts from members of the Royal Family. The money subscrib led to it was invested in the names of three Trustees--the Governor of the Bank of England, Lord Salisbury, who is High Steward of Westminster, and Sir Robert Hud- son; and none of it is paid to the Dean and Chapter by the Trustces unless they are satisfied that the sum asked for has been spent wise- ly and economically and in accord- ance with the provisions of the trust deed.

The object of the fund, and the

tions of the building which most needed repair: the two western towers, the outside of King Henry VII.'s Chapel, much of the parapet running round the roof, the cleres-

attained its highest values during only object recognized by the Trus- the period 1866-1880, when it ex-tees, is the repair and preserva. ceeded 35 per 1,000 population, and tion for all time of the fabric of from that time it diminished by Westminster Abbey. The original gradual and practically continu-appeal mentioned certain por ous stages to 23.8 in 1914; it is now 18.3 per 1,000, little more than half the maximum figure of 36.3 recorded in 1876, and having regard to current eccnomic and in dustrial conditions appears likely to remain unprecedentedly. low intories and, flying buttresses, the relation to all earlier periods for Cloisters, and certain other an- which we have reliable records."

cient dwellings. Last November we described in detail the work which then had been accomplished out of the income of the Dean Ryle. Fund. Half the outside of King Henry VIII's Chapel has been done. The hard crust of soot has been cleaned off; and, when the stone has thus been freed from the acids that were eating it away, it has been limewashed to preserve it, so far as possible, against sim lar damage in the future. The necessary work on the parapet, running round the roof has been carried through. In the Cloisters. the stonework and the Purbeck

Discussing the causes of mor tality, the Registrar-General notes that many remarkable changes in relation to the deaths of infants have occurred within the last eleven years. Measles, whooping cough, and diphtheria al exhibit substantial declines. The fall re- corded for tuberculosis "a much greater-indeed, this disease is rapidly losing all importance as a contributor to the registered mortality of infancy. The rate has fallen from 6.41 deaths per 1.000 births in 1901 to 1.26 in

1925.

Increase of Cancer.

Financial Position.

At all ages under 75 mortality marble shafts have been cleaned of each sex was lower in 1925 than and preserved like the outside of it wus before the war. At all King Henry VII.'s Chapel; weak axes jointly the crude rate has spots have been made good, main- fallen 12.8 per cent, but when ally by hardly visible copper clamp- lowance is made by standardisaing; and it is now possible to sec tion for increased age of the popu-not only the vaulting and the ar lation the extent of the full in in-cading, but also, what had not creased to 20.7

been seen for centuries, auch per cent. It is works of beauty as the East Clois- much the same for the two sexes. As many as 5,365 cases of small- ter door into the Abbey, and the pax were notified-by

door into the vestibule of the Chap. far the highest number since 1911-butter House. only nine deaths were recorded. The mortality from influenza was less than for the preceding year. This is the work that has been Tuberculosis accounted for 40,- done; and it has swallowed up | 387 deaths-males 22,234, females every year every penny of the in- 18,753. The figure for males is come from the Dean Ryle Fund. the lowest recorded during the Nothing has been left for the west- present century except that of 22.-ern towers, nor for the clerestories 086 in 1923, and that for females and flying buttresses. And the is, without exception, considerably western towers, off which lumps the lowest, 1929 coming next, of stone had already begun to fall with 18,703 deaths. Mortality is when the appeal was issued, are still falling for each sex, and is now the the worse by seven now much below the lowest rates years of shrinking and swell- within recorded before the war. The re-ing of the iron stays duction in 1926 applies chiefly to them: and the clerestories females, whose rates have fallen and flying buttresses are the worst at each age distinguished except by seven years of London air and 15-20, while for females there has fog and rain. The generosity of been some increase both at this the public subscribed a very large age and at 45-65. But for each sum of money for the preservation sex mortality was distinctly lower of the fabric; but in 1927, it is un in 1925 than in any previous year. true as it was when Dean Rylä Deaths ascribed to cancer in wrote the words in 1920, that "the 1923 numbered 51,939-24,002 of

means placed at the disposal of males and 27,937 of females. For the Dean and Chapter no longer both sexes these numbers are the suffice for its upkoep." Westmin- highest yet recorded. Of the total ster Abbey is still out at elbows. deaths 40,832 were referred to car- When Dean Ryle issued his ap- cinoma, 2,729 to sarcoma, and peal he stated that during the last 8.878 to "cancer" not otherwise de-130 years more than $100,000 had fined. It is noted that increase been spent on the fabric, but had of mortality continues to be much only been obtained by suppressing more rapid for males than for one of the canonries, and by beg females. Since 1911-14 the inging and borrowing from the E- creases in the standardised rates clesiastical Commissionera. He have been as follow: Males, 13 asked for £250,000, of which £100, per cent.; females, 2 per cent.; 000 was to be spent on structural both sexes, 6 per cent.

repairs in the immediate future, and the remaining £150,000 invest- ed to provide a constant income for the maintenance of the fabric year in and year out. The res ponge to the appeal was generous; but the fund never reached the de- xired £250,000. It has, up to the present reached £173,000, which gives the Abbey an income, for the prescribed purposes, of £9,000 a yeur; but it has not reached the mark at which the Trustees would be justified in making over out of the capital the sum of £100,000 which was asked in 1920 for im- mediate structural repairs. The result is that much of the income of £9,000, which was intended for the preservation of what should have been repaired out of capital, bas been spent on the re- pairs. The work on King Honry

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VII's Chapel, for instance, was which the scaffolding alone would Great and Greater Britain; and against time and decay work which the original scheme in consume an incredible amount) heavier and heavier bocomes the generosity of the public has set The tended should be paid for out of and might cost double that sum. taak of those who have to full their minds at rest on one score. capital. As things are, it has Were the western been paid for out of income. And made good, the income would be means. Meanwhile, as trustees pair, they can keep it so for ever. towers once those demands upon inadequate Once the fabric is in through re- the income is altogether inadewell able to keep them so. quate to support such an under-

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