— Tho old belief that during great wars more boys than girls arc born, is now findiru? new support • in . Vienna (s^s_ ; th© Chronicle), where out of, 559 ...births smco last October 314 arc male. An even greater preponderance is said to; have, ooenrred in France during periods of the Revolutionary wars, while tKe famines and plagues 0! mediteval times were often followed by big jumns and curious freaks in tho birth-wite— »s, for irstancc. in Enghnd ''ftcr. th" Black Death, when, according to Thorold, Rogers, in " S'x CenturiM of Work and Wil*," triple births beoaiino common.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16480, 4 September 1915, Page 8
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