INCREASE IN BIRTHS
ENGLAND AND WALES MORTALITY RATE LOWER (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 18. (Received Sept. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) The quarterly return of the Registrar-general for England and Wales shows that there were 6215 more births in the second quarter of this year than for the corresponding quarter of 1936. The total was 163,867. The birthrate was 16.1 per 1000 of the estimated mid-year population. Of the births 84,023 were males and 79,844 females. Fewer infants under one year died, the mortality being 54 per 1000 births. The natural increase in population by the excess of births over deaths was 45,343. The highest total in the corresponding quarters of the three preceding years was 38,112 in 1935.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23302, 21 September 1937, Page 9
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