MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS
NATURE RESTORES WAR LOSSES More boys have been born during th« last ten years in England and Wales than in any previous ten years. There is always a slight preponderance of boys, but birth statistics for 1919-29 show an unparalleled increase. The highest point was reached in 1919, immediately after the war, when 1.060 boys were born to every 1,000 girls. Since then the number of boys born to every 1,000 girls has been:—l92o. 1,052; 1921, 1,051; 1922, 1,049: 1923. 1.044; 1924, 1,046; 1925, 1,045; 1926, i;041; 1927, 1,042; 1925, 1,042; 1929, 1,043. The total number of boys born between 1919 .and 1929 was 4,478,076,. which is nearly three-quarters of a million more than the number of girls. “ It is a definite scientific fact that more boys are born after every great war to balance the proportion' of the population,” a leading authority on eugenics said to a ‘ Sunday Express ’ mortality continues to be reduced ther# will be a definite shortage of wives in twenty, or thirty years,”
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Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 7
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172MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 7
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