BIRTHS IN BRITAIN
Big Increase Shown
(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 31. The total number of live births registered in England and Wales during the September quarter was 168.838. which is the highest of any quarter since June. 1930. it represented a birth rate of 16.1 per 1000 of the population, which is also the highest since 1930. Still-births reached the lowest rate yet recorded. For the first time in any quarter since 1936 the total deaths fell below 100,000. There was a decline in the number of marriages.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22469, 2 January 1943, Page 5
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