MORE BIRTHS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 September 1934, Page 5

MORE BIRTHS

IN ENGLAND AND WALES t< ’ HIGHER PROPORTION OF BOYS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, Monday. The quarterly returns of births and deaths for England and Wales _ show more births, with a higher proportion of boys, more marriages, and a notable decrease in infant mortality, but indicate a continued slow trend towards a stationary population. In the second quarter of 1934 live births numbered 156,636, an increase of 2580 over the corresponding quarter of 1933, and equivalent to 15.6 per 1000 of population. The proportion of boys to girls was 1057 to 1000 compared with the average of the ten preceding second quarters of 1933 to 1000. Deaths numbered 119,034, corresponding to the steady annual rate of 11.8 per 1000. The mortality of infants under one year of age averaged 55 per 1000. The excess of live births Over deaths was 3 per 1000 below the average of tho ten preceding second quarters. The natural increase of population by excess of births over deaths was 37,602, compared with 49,076, 49,175, and 45,456 for the corresponding quarters of 1931, 1932 and 1933. The birth rate in London was 13.2 per 1000 in 1933, as against 14.3 in 1932, and was the lowest yet recorded. Infant mortality in London for the years 1930-33 was 63 per 1000 births, a reduction of 42 per cent from the average for the period 1911-1914. A comparison with the same period shows that the tuberculosis death rate decreased by 25 per cent. (British Wireless).