EMPIRE POPULATION
NEED FOR INCREASE WARNING BY SCIENTIST (Received September 1, 5.20 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 1 Sir Leonard Hill, Director of Research, St. John Clinic and Institute ol Physical Medicine, in a speech warned his hearers that unless the hirth-rato improved the British Empire was doomed. England's population in the year 2037 would be half that of London at present. As the population fell there would be great social troubles. The vitality of youth would be replaced by the infirmities of age. Rents and taxes were too high and the people could not afford ' babies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 11
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95EMPIRE POPULATION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 11
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