GERMAN BIRTH-RATE.
DECLINE IN WAR PERIOD.
GREAT INCREASE IN MORTALITY.
• LONDON. May 17. A retort compiled by the Local (iovernment Board on information from German sources shows that the fall in the birthrate in Germany during 1915, 1916, and 1917 is equivalent to the loss of 2,000,000 babies. Forty per cent, fewer babies were born in 1916 than in 1913, compared with the decrease of 10 per cent, in England and Wales.
The infantile death-rate in Germany has been well kept down, but it is 50 per "cent, higher than in England and Wale-. The high death-rate led to a large extension of the infant welfare work, in which voluntary societies played an active part, hut the movement is becoming more and more municipal. The infant mortality rate in Germany in 1913 was 151 per 1000, compared with 108 in England and Walts. The rates in 1914 for Prussia, Saxony, and Bavaria were respectively 164, 173, and 193 per 1000. The abnormal increase in infant mortality in the first months of the war is shown by the fact that in Prussia, in the third quarter of 1914, the rate ro?"> from 128 to 143, in Saxony from 140 to 242, and in Bavaria from 170 to 239. The records in England and Wales do not show any abnormal mortality of infants in the early months of the" war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 10867, 4 June 1918, Page 6
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