BRITISH VITAL STATISTICS.
Elec Tel. Copyright— United . Press Assn.) (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received May 20, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. The quarterly return of marriages, births, and deaths for England and Wales shows : Births, 271,082 (which is a record) ; deaths, 137,637, whereof 4037 were due to influenza. The infant mortality was 88 per thousand, which is 32 .per thousand below the average of the ten, preceding first quarters. There were 280,750 births and 137.022 deaths registered in the three months ending December 31 in the United , Kingdom. The increase of population is therefore 133,738. The marriages during the same quarter totalled 238,460.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15221, 20 May 1920, Page 3
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