MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS
, NATURE RESTORES WAR LOSSES. More boys have been born during the last ten years in England and Wales than in/ any previous ten years.
There is always a slight preponderance of boys, but birth statistics for 191&-1929 show an unparalleled increase. 1
The highest point was reached in 1919, immediately after the war, when 1060 boys were born to every 1000
1043. • The total number of boys born between 1919 and 1929 was 4,478,076, which is nearly three-quatrers of a million more than the number of girls. “ It is a definite scientific fact that more boys are bom after every great war* to balance the proportion of the population,” a leading authority on eugenics said to a London Sunday Express representative. “In fact, if the infant mortality continues to be reduced, there will be a definite shortage of wives in twenty or thirty years.”
girls. Since then the number of boys born to every 1000 girls has been: 1920, 1052; 1921, 1051; 1922, 1049; 1923, 1044; 1924, 1046; JL925, 1045; 1926, 1041; 1927, 1042; 1928, 1042; 1929,
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3262, 19 February 1931, Page 7
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