GERMAN BIRTHRATE
LOWER, SAYS EXPERT, DEATHS EXCEED BIRTHS IN CITIES: Geneva, Sept. 2. The belief long held in France that Germany’s people were steadily increasing and thus offering a potential danger to France’s diminishing population received a blow at the world population conference meeting here, when Dr. Ed. Grotiahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, declared that the German birthrate has fallen so low that Germany’s population is stationary, and that in the big cities, deaths exceed births.
Asserting that only the fertility of the German provinces temporarily maintained the balance, he said he anticipated a further downward trend m births He added that Germany’s aristocracy was gradually disappearing, pointing out that the number of knightly houses once exceeded 20,000, while now only 800 remained.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 5
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