HIGH DEATH RATE
VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1942 FEWER BIRTHS THAN PREVIOUS YEAR " After six years of continuous rise, the number of births registered in the Dominion during the year 1942 showed' a drop of 1,422 as compared with the. previous year," states the Government ' Abstract of Statistics ' for January. " Practically all of this decrease occurred in the last quarter of the year. An analysis of the quarterly figures indicates a definite increase for each of the first two quarters, while at the end of the first nine months of the year 1942 a decrease of only 141 births was recorded from the corresponding portion of the previous year. . "The birth rate of 21.80 for 1942 represents a decline of 1.01 from 1941, but is, nevertheless, the second highest rate recorded since ,1923., , , ,„-„ "Deaths in the Dominion during 1942 numbered 16,386, this figure being a record, exceeding even that for -1918, the year of the great influenza epidemic. The death rate of 10.60 per thousand.of population is also extremely high, and since 1885 has been exceeded on onjy two occasions—iii 1907 and 1918., , . " The most encouraging aspect of the year's vital statistics is the. infant mortality rate/ which again dropped to a record low level."
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Evening Star, Issue 24466, 30 March 1943, Page 2
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204HIGH DEATH RATE Evening Star, Issue 24466, 30 March 1943, Page 2
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