AMERICAN BIRTH RATE
INSURANCE MAN’S ALARM NEW YORK. Nov. 10. The vice-president of the Dublin Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in an address to women, said that the steady decrease in the ferti'ity of American women was alarming to students of population trends, and un--1 less new forces were brought to bear I to increase the birth rate, by 1980 36 per cent, of the population of the United States would he over 50 years lof age. “Who is going to pay the oldage pensions?” he asked. I The present 700,000 annual excess of births over deaths was he i added. There would be a sharp de- : crease in the birth rate and an increase in the death rate within, a comparatively few years. Birth control was responsible for this state of affairs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 12
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