LOW BIRTH RATE
INCREASE IN DEATHS
STATISTICS FOR 1027. (United Press Association.) (3y Electrlc Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, August 27. (Received August 28, at 8.30 p.m.) The statistics for 1927 show that births in England were 166 per 10,000, the lowest on record, the previous lowest being 177 in the last year of the war, 1918. Deaths were 123, the highest since 1922, but infantile deaths, 7 per cent., with one exception, equalled the lowest recorded. Deaths from cancer constituted a new' record, and deaths from influenza were the worst since the groat 1918-19 epidemic. Suicides equalled the record. A special table indicates an alarming increase in suicides by a certain disinfectant and coal gas. Deaths due to motor cycle accidents totalled 940, compared with 543 in 1925. Motor car deaths “or the same years were 1292 and 987.—Australian Press Association —United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20499, 29 August 1928, Page 7
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