DECREASE IN BIRTHS.
ATTEMPTS TO REMEDY. LONDON, July 14. Efforts by Italy and Germany to alleviate the financial burdens of large families have not led to any noticeable increase in the birthrate, stated Dr. Kuczynski, a distinguished authority on population questions, when addressing the Royal Sanitary Congress. The Italian policy was inaugurated in 1926, when the annual births were 1,095,000, he said. They have been less than 1,000,000 every year since 1931, and were only 955,000 last year. Dr. Kuczynski expressed the view that appeals to married people to rear children as a national duty, and severe laws against abortion and birth-control were equally futile. The fight against population decline was handicapped by the absence of adequate statistics, which were far more extensive and accurate in the Dominions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 253, 6 August 1937, Page 8
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128DECREASE IN BIRTHS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 253, 6 August 1937, Page 8
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