FALLING BIRTH-RATE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 9

FALLING BIRTH-RATE

r ; \.v - GREAT DECREASE IN" BRITISH • EMIGRATION. "According: to .the -quarterly . returnv issned in; : .Noyember,'..the' birthrfato in;.{.the. tfnited Eingdom:;,in;;the .-.third; :quart.er, ; of . ; ;19p8:;-.was . 26.3 per'; 1000, arid-.thb/death-rate iwas rl3i'o. per.; : iOOO.i.iThe.-riiarriage'.rate 'ill '-the .second quarter.:-was/-15.7'".ppr, /1000.",v,/A .n'oteivbrfKy stateriißnt>is''that, "compared-with vthe. corresponding third' quarter. of, 1907, '-tho. hei'fpntward .balance of ' an.d British colonial',passengers^'..showed! .60 per' cent.,, that, of Scottish' a " decrease." of 36 per cent.,' and .that of Irish a 'decrease" of 61 per oent. - ■■ / , Taking England arid Wales, tho birth-rate wa's ; 28.0 per. 1000;' or 1.6 below the rate in the ten .preceding, third quarters.; the deaths were 12.8 per 1000, or 2.7-;, below the rato;.iri tho ten preceding third quarters; Infantile mortality showed an extraordinary decrease from 175 .per 1000 to 126. There were 'only three deaths from smallpox in' tho whole quarter. Tho; followhig ' table shows . how Loudon' compares with, many foreign'cities in the matter of the birt'li and death-rates: — ■Birth-rate. ... Death-rate. London ... 25.0 London 11.9 Paris ... IS.I • Brussels ' . 12.6 Brussels ' 15.7 Chicago . ' 13.4! Berlin' ... 22.1 Amsterdam "i/ 10.5 Vienna 22.2 . Bio'..do Janeiro 45.4 . New. York 29.3 Moscow 32.5 ; Copenhagen 27.8 St. Petersburg 28.4 Infantile mortality abroad ranged from 76 per 1000 in Stockholm and 310; in Paris to 208 iii Brussels, 233 m Berlin,; and 261 in Bucharest. - i ' -