HEAVY FALL IN BIRTHRATE
The effect,of the "war on social conditions }Is strikingly illustrated .' in the Registrar-General's latest ' return of marriages, .births, and deaths in England and Wales. It shows that in the second quarter of 1915 marriages were more numerous than, in any corresponding period since civil registration was established, and that in .the third quar-, ter of the year the birth-rate fell to a point never before touched. ;- Below are. set out the numbers by which births exceeded deaths in the third quarter of each of the last four years'— '••■' ',' V •"'•'■ ~. ■• - 1912 t .. ».. .. 117,552 . 1913 ' f '.? -, ■ .... 112,055. ....... 1914 ... ' t -, .... 111,577, .. 1915 ■:■ r* ... 88,079 As a result o! the heavy decline in births the natural increase of populatioD was 23,498 below the total for the September quarter of 1914, and 23,976 less than that for the same period of 1913.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 13
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141HEAVY FALL IN BIRTHRATE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 13
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