SCOTTISH BIRTH RATE
THE LOWEST ON RECORD Tile Scottish, birth rate last year of ID ioi reveiy 1000 piopula.itojn, according to provisional vital statistics just issued by the Registrai-General oi Scotland, is the lowest on record. Nevertheless, the figure i s above that of England and Wales, which had a low birth rate in 1931 of 1-5.8 per 1000. Th© Scottish birth rate was 0.5 be low the previous year and 0.9 below the mean birth rates for the preceding, five years. Th e Scottish death rate 13.3 per 1000 was the? same as the previous year, but 0.3 below the average for five years. The mortality figures were 32 per 100, compared with GO o* 1000 for England and Wales
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 3
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121SCOTTISH BIRTH RATE Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 3
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