British Birthrate Now Going Down Every Year
Britain’s baby boom is over. Births are fewer every week. Housing problems, shortage of perambulators, rationing, and feeding difficulties did not stop the birthrate from soaring during the post-war years. But the latest returns of the Re<-gistrar-General show that the number of babies born last year will be many thousands fewer than the previous year. Up to mid-November, 362,587 babies were born in England and Wa1e5—57,066 fewer than in the same period of the previous year. In the big towns live births registered, during the week ended November 13 were 7,065, compared with 7,503 for the previous week. Like the. rest of the country, the London figures so far are down by thousands. Babies born up to/ November 13 totalled 58,649. The previous year for the same period the figure was 66,213. And the number of births is still going down in the London area. In the week ended November 13 1,124 babies were born —150 fewer than the week before.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 50, 7 February 1949, Page 5
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