STILL DECLINING
i FRENCH BIRTH-RATE THE LOWEST ON RECORD i. FEWER MARRIAGES; MORE ' I . DIVORCES. [ (By Telegraph.— Press As-soeiation.— Cop} right.) (TIMES AND SiDNEY SI'S SEHVICES.) (Received June 27, 8.30 a.m.) j | PARIS, 26th .Time. ' The alarming decline in the birth-rale J continues. The biiths in 1912 munbeied only 745,559, the lowest number on re- j cord. In less than forty years the birth-rate has diminished by two hundred thousand annuajjy. In 1913, 13,169 few er marriages were celebrated, while divorces increased by 500, totalling 15,076, the decline in the birth-rate coinciding I with that increase. I
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 7
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