STILL FALLING
FRENCH EIRT.TT-liATE PARIS. Sept. 23. The birth-rate in Franco continues to fall. According to a chart for 1988 drawn up by the National Alliance for the Inuerense of the Population, only six departments as compared with .12 in the preceding year show birth-rates higher than 2.(1 per marriage, tlie minimum average necessary to avoid depopulation. Corsica had the highest, birth-rate, SJ..S9 per marriage, followed by several districts in Brittany, Normandy, Savoy, and Auvergne,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 5
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75STILL FALLING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 5
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