THE BIRTH RATE PROBLEM.
Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Sydney, This Day. Received March 7, 7.45 a.m. The Birth Rate Commission, while allowing the same ratio of decline for New South Wales as for the other States, estimates that from the period of 1864 to 1902 Australia, through the reduction in the birth rate, lost 940,000 in her population. Dealing with the relation between the fall in the birth rate and insanity, the re- • port says that in New Zealand the birth rate has fallen most continuously since 1878. The insanity rate had a Blight but uniformly upward tendency since 1874, and this tendency became pronounced in 1878. Comparing New Zealand and New South Wales, both the : fall in" the hirth rate and the ; risei ; in insanity _ have been of greater intensity in New^l Zealand than in: Not? Sputh Wales, i The birth rate ia^etf forten yeara up to 1900 places New' Zealand sixtH ana not fiftb.^ Place Taimaniv^l occupies seventh place. / r^ 7 "
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Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 221, 7 March 1904, Page 2
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