BIRTH RATE PROBLEM.
Cleaner Slums Don't Mean
Better Folk. MERELY MOBE FEBTILE. (Beeelved 9 lb.) GENEVA, September 2. Some interesting phases of problems connected with population were disenssed at the conference on World Population. Mr. E. J. Lidbetter, an authority on -London slums, declared that even if the hygienic conditions of slums were improved it merely meant increased fertility, not increased quality. Professor Gins, an Italian delegate, said the birthrate was a matter of national importance. The State was entitled to decide as to the future population of a country as the lowering of its standard enfeebled the country's military strength. Mr. Thomas, Labour secretary, urged the establishment of an international organisation to handle migration and avoid the conflicts that arose out of the problem. He thought it was necessary to settle whether people had the right to reproduce beyond their own economic resources; and whether it was rfght for owners to conserve soil from which they were not producing the maximum.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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BIRTH RATE PROBLEM.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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