FALL IN BIRTH RATE
CONCERN IN AUSTRALIA ""Australia is close to the stage where it can be said to be committing race suicide," said the ActingDirector of Health, Dr. H. G. Wallace. He was commenting on the latest N.S.W. statistics which showed that the number of children in the State under the age ol 15 hadt decreased by 42,000 in six years, and that the annual rate of natural increase of population was now less than half the average in any period prior to 1921. The Government Statistician,, Mr S. R. Carver, points but that the birthrate is barely high enough to maintain the existing imputation figure. Leading women social workers today described the problem as almost wholly economic, and said that the Federal Government's child endowment plan if made liberal enough would help to arrest the decline. Dr Wallace agreed that the problem was largely economic, but said i that many women were anxious and able to avoid the responsibilities of motherhood. Dr Wallace said that as the medical profession had no evidence that the fertility of the race had been lowered, the dccline in Hie birthrate must be due to birth control.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 283, Issue 283, 14 March 1941, Page 7
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194FALL IN BIRTH RATE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 283, Issue 283, 14 March 1941, Page 7
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