INCREASING BIRTHRATE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 6

INCREASING BIRTHRATE.

There in, some scope for satisfaction in the comparisons made by the Regis-trar-GenoTnl, for the birth' and marriage rates are shown to be on the rise, and tfi'a death rate is the lowest over nocorded. The deaths in 1912 (9,295) vtore leas than the number registered in lsm t9534) I>v 239. and the rate per - tSOO foli fr0m"9.39 ,to 8.95.

"-'^Ehe rmmb^r of Jitarriagefl_:(«x-cli^ing ■!«tfco«ei :■; -'"«o3atr»ct=Bd-.:, ... Maoris): .'8.70, tho '9«tual ininaber anfl rate in ;mi.'. ■ ..-...■•,, • ■•■;■;;":.■.. :.'. ■■. -. :.

Tho fluctuations of "tiie 'births>;deatlis a*id marriages rates for "tho-Wt ten .vaars aro as under (per 1000 of populatfVm).: — Rirtli • Death Marriage 1803 26.61 '10.40 8.23 1904 26.94 9.57 8.26 WOS 27.22 . 9.27 828 1906 27.08 \ 9.31 . 8.48 1007 27.30 10.95 8.91 1908 27.45 9.57 8.82 1909 27.29 9.22 8.33 1910 26.17 9.71 8.30 I9U 25.97 9.39 .8.70 19.12 -26.48 • 8.95 8.90