DROP IN BIRTH-RATE.
— m •" WHOLE DOMINION AFFECTED. FIGURES FOR WELLINGTON. [BX TELEGBAPE—PB.ESS ASSOCTATIOX.] WELLINGTON. Monday.
The vital statistics for Greater Wellington for April appear to indicate a fall of almost 25 per cent, in the birth rate compared with the figures for the previous months and also the monthly averages for past yeanj. For the period stated there were onlj 149 births against 207 for March of this vear and 208 in April, 1921. Dr. Truby King says the birth rate, not only in Wellington, but ail over New Zealand, is going steadily down. It dropped from 24 per thousand in 1917 to 21 per thousand in 1921. It was 35 per thousand in 1885, and should now be 50 per thousand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18079, 2 May 1922, Page 6
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