330,000 MARRIAGES
CEREMONIES IN GERMANY 12,000 MORE CHILDREN According to a message from Berlin received in America, marriages and births in the Reich during 1940 were reported "quite satisfactory" in number by the German Statistical Office, despite the war. So-called "war imfmages," made easier for soldiers by elimination of bans, accounted for 330,000 marriages up to April. After spring, however, the number of marriage.'? dropped off so that the average for the rest of the year was; 4.5 per cent under normal. u Twelve thousand more children were; born in 1940 than in 193-9, bu' the previously steady increase in the birth rate ended in May, 1940, because so many men had been called to the colours. The deicrea.se after May, the Statistical Office said, has been "relatively conservative." The nation's health was described as "generally good. ;! The number of deaths increased in the first quarter of 1940, the Office repoirted, "because the bitte--eold in the winter of 1939-40, but i" no way because of the war." Th.' resit of the year, it said, deaths v/ero "mostly under the 1939 level."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 127, Issue 127, 9 July 1941, Page 2
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