VITAL STATISTICS.
BRITISH AND GERMAN FIGURES.
Press Association—Copyright, Austrc Ban and N.Z. Cable Association. London, February 21.'
The Registrar-General’s statistics for 1916, just issued, show the lowest birth and death rates and almost the lowest marriage rates on record. The marriage rate of widows is the highest for thirty years. Birth exceed deaths by 277,303, excluding, war fatalities, which, it is believed, are much under these figures. The German figures for the same period are; Births 1,103,000 deaths 1,331,000, practically excluding war fatalities. -
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1918, Page 5
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