SALVATIONISTS FOR INDIA

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 18 September 1934, Page 5

SALVATIONISTS FOR INDIA

Work Among the Primitive Western Ghats Tribe GENERAL’S GRANDDAUGHTER STUDY OF MEDICINE (United Presa Asscciati: n—By Electric I'elegrapb Copyright.? Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Sent. 17. Adjutant Muriel Booth Tucker, the youngest of General Booth’s 27 grandchildren, accompanied by Adjutant Barbara Auton, will begin in January Salvation Army work in India among the Bhils, a primitive till tribe in the Western Ghats. They .still carry bows and arrows.

Adjutants Tucker and Auton are at present studying the Bhils’ language, and they will also undergo a three months’ medical training before sailing. There ar© no other Europeans stationed in the Western Ghats.

BRITISH VITAL STATISTICS

/ LOWER INFANT MORTALITY.

POPULATION MORE STATIONARY. (British Official Wireless.! RUGBY, Sept. 15. Quarterly returns of births and deaths in England and Wales showmore births, with a higher proportion of boys, more marriages and a notable decrease in- infant mortality, but indicate the continued slow trend towards a stationary population. In t‘he second quarter of 1934 live births numbered 156,636, an increase of 2580 over the corresponding quarter of 1933, and equivalent to 15.6 per 1000 of the population. The proportion of boys to girls was 1057 to 1000. Deaths numbered 119,034, corresponding to the steady annual rate of 11.8 per 1000. The mortality of infants under one year averages 55 per 1000, and the excess of live births over deaths was three per 1000 below the average of tne ten- preceding second quarters.