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VITAL STATISTICS

DECLINING BIRTH RATE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Health Department reports that the birth rate for 1926 was the lowest ever recorded in the Dominion, 28,475 being registered as against 28,153 in 192 b. Tho rate represents 21.05 per 1000 of the population, and that for 1935 21.17. The number of deaths registered was 11,819. as against 11,026 for the previous year, an increase of about i per cent., attributed principally to influenza and whooping cough. , :

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 7

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VITAL STATISTICS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 7

VITAL STATISTICS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 7