JAPANESE STATISTICS
BIRTHS AND DEATHS LAST YEAR. UNFAVDURABLE COMPARISONS. (By Telegraph—Press. Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuters Telegrams.) TOKIO, November 16. The census report of Japan for 1919, shows that there were 1,513,000 deaths, an increase of 298,000 over the preceding year. Births totalled 1,823,000, a decrease of 18,000. The increased cost of living, decreased marriages and the influenza epidemic are •redited with causing the changes.
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Southland Times, Issue 18984, 19 November 1920, Page 5
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