DECLINING BIRTHRATE.
POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. MATTER OF GRAVE CONCERN. (Received Wednesday, 9.45 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The Registrar General 's report, on the vital statistics for 1923 refers to the declining birth rate as a matter for grave national concern.
■The Queensland birth rate fell from 27.58 per thousand in 1.920 to 24.89 in 1923.
The marriage rate declined from 9.80 to 7.24. and the death rate increased by ,69 per cent. —P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 April 1925, Page 5
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