BRITISH STATISTICS.
ARRESTING RETURNS. LOWEST BIRTH RATE ON RECORD. INCREASED ROLL OF DEATHS (By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright.) (Australian Press AssociationL LONDON, August 27. The British vital statistics for 1927 show that Hie births totalled 166 per 10,000. This is the lowest on record. The previous lowest rate was 177 in the last year of the war (1918). The death in 1927 totalled 123 per :l 0,000. This is the highest figure since 1922. However, tli.e infantile dealh-rale (7 per rent.), with one exception, equalled the lowest record. Deaths from cancer in the period constituted a new record and deaths from influenza were flic highest since the great epidemic of J 918-19. The number of suicides in 1927 equalled the record. A special table indicates an alarming increase in suicides by means of a certain disinfectant coal gas. Deaths due lo motor-cycle accidents totalled 940, compared with 543 in 1025' Deaths from motor-car accidents for the same year were 1292 and 987.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 7
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