LOW BIRTH-RATE.
not necessarily bad. LEADING PHYSICIAN’S STATEMENT. (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.' iAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association./ (Received February 6. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 5. “Quality is more important than quantity,” was the comment of Sir Arbulhmott Lane on England’s birthrate figures, which are the lowest recorded except in the war years 19,17 and 1&'18. “It is far better, to produce a few healthy, vigorous children than numerous feeble stupids,” he added. “Much wisdom is exhibited in the low figures. Unfortunately there is.no evidence that this wisdom extends to- the less desirable elements of society. The birth- rateneed not provoke anxiety if we are prepared to teach people the proper methods of living.- The number and extent of diseases traceable to the evils, of over-refined and over-cooked unsuitable foods, is hardly guessed by the nation at large.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16952, 6 February 1926, Page 7
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