NOT DESPERATE.
British Birthrate Situation More Cheering. CABINET MINISTER'S VIEWS. RUGBY, February 23. The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, discussing the trend of population in a speech at Ash bridge, said most of the forecasts hitherto published expected an earlier decline in the population of the country than the facts would ap|>ear to justify. The birthrate had remained approximately constant for four years in succession. It was impossible to predict, and dangerous to rely upon, a definite check to the long-continued downward movement, but the matter was much more open than was generally assumed. The primary needs of the situation appeared to be: A close and continuous survey of current population movements and investigations into the causes operating in the decline of the birthrate as an indispensable preliminary to the formulation of any policy with regard to them. An alteration of the existing birth registers was already under consideration for the purpose of adding to the existing material regarding fertility statistics.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 7
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162NOT DESPERATE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 7
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