BIRTH RATE
INCREASE IN BRITAIN {British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 19. Tho quarterly return of the Registrar-General for England and Wales shows that there were 6215 more births in the second quarter of this year than in the corresponding quarter in 1936. The total was 136,867. The birth-rate was 16.1 per 1000 of the estimated mid-year population. Of the births 84,023 were males and 79,844 females. Fewer infants under one yeai. died, the mortality being 54 per ■IOOO births. The natural increase in the population by the excess of births over deaths was 45,343. The highest total in the corresponding quarters of the ('three preceding years was 38,112 in 1925.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 5
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