POPULATION OF BRITAIN
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 30. Falling birth rates since the "baby boom” of a decade ago has made anxiety about over-population in Britain groundless, according to Professor Hubert Campbell, of the Welsh National School of Medicine, who has told a conference in London that attempts to cut down population growth further by methods such as free contraception, could be dangerous. Britain’s birth rate had been falling steadily since 1964, and was expected to be well below the replacement rate at about 0.86 this (year, he said. About 330,000 (females would have been i born in Britain this year, lan insufficient number to replace their mothers. There was no indication that the population of England and Wales would exceed 55 million by the end of the century, a figure which compared with the present population of 48.7 million.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33370, 31 October 1973, Page 17
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