BRITISH BIRTHS DECLINE
A. drop of 59,299 in the number of live births iri England and Wales in 1945, compared with 1944, is shown in the provisional flgures issued by the Registrar-General. The 1945 total was 685,544, a rate of 16.1 per 1000 population. Number in 1944 was 744,843 of 17.5 per 1000. Stillbirths represented 2.8 per cent. of total births, this was .46 per thousand, and the lowest ever recorded. A total of 487,916 deaths (including non-civilians)i gave a new low record rate of 11.4 or .2 below 1944. Stillbirths in 1945 riumbered 19,418 against 21,212 in 1944. Figures for the quarter ended December 31 last show that live births numbered 164,370, a rate of 15.3. This was 1.4 below the cor-' responding quarter of 1944 but was 1.2 above the average for similar quarters in -the five years before 1944. There were 4,699 stillbirths, 2.8 per cent. of the total births registered. The rate of .44 was tne same as for the September quar- , ter, which was the lowest ever 'recorded in any quarter. I Deaths totalled 121,860, making a rate of 11.3, which was .3 below jthe same period a year earlier, and j .1 below the average for the fourth 'quarters from 1940-1944.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 May 1946, Page 3
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