More Boys Being Born Than Girls
QUARTERLY RETURNS AT HOME (British Official Wireless.) Received Monday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 15. The quarterly returns of births and deaths in England and Wales show more births, with a higher proportion of boys, more marriages and a notable decrease in infant mortality, but indicate a continued slow trend towards a stationary population. In the second quarter of 1934 live hirths 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, compared with the average of the ten preceding second quarters of 933 to 1000.--Deaths numbered 119,034, corresponding to a steady annual rate of 11.8 per 1000. The mortality of infants under one year averaged 55 per 1000. The excess of live births over deaths was 3 per 1000 below the average of the 10 preceding second quarters.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 218, 18 September 1934, Page 7
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155More Boys Being Born Than Girls Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 218, 18 September 1934, Page 7
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