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Show HEW YORK GROWING AT REMARKABLE RATE Estimated Increase of Nearly 300,000 During Past Three Years. NEW YORK. - May 12. Statistics compiled by the board of health show that the population of the city of New York Is Increasing at a remarkably rapid rate. The births reported In Manhattan borough alone . during the first four months of the present year were 2000 In excess of those reported In the same period last year. At the same time there has been a falling off In the percentage, per-centage, of deaths. The city has also gained enormously by foreign Immigration. The board- of health estimates that the population of the city has grown from 3,437,202 at the last Federal census in 1900, to 3,732,330 at present. S |