FRANCE'S BIRTH-RATE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 5

FRANCE'S BIRTH-RATE.

''..,'; ;,-..'•.: "-AN INCREASE."- y : ".,-' '■ I , AND' A; DECLINE IN DEATH-RATE: : . (BT T»tEaU*rilr-PUESa iSSOCUTiON—cbriMOUT.) ■ ■,';■..;■ ■..'-. - : "\- (Reo< Juno 4, 11p.m.) : ".;; ' i in , -Y-''V i '•.■■■' ■■'■'-■■■.'.■■Paris,-June 4..'. >' The population of Fraiice in 1908 increased bj 66,383 (? ;46,333). ' A decline in the death-rate ■ represented •48,266 of this total, and an increase in the birth-rate represented 18,067. I'; ■•■•;;■•; •';;;', . . ■'' /;. [ \ '_ ,;;'• DEAD LOBSOF 1907.17 ;' VITAL/STATISTICS OP I PRANCE' AND .. ■.;;'.; -\:: ENGLAND. . ;-.; •.'.■.. .' ■In 1907 the number of deaths in France was 7M,000. Dedncting the. oabled . decline," 48,266, from this total, the deaths in 1908. work out at 745,734. In. 1907 the number of births in Prance was 771,000. Adding the cabled increase; 18,067, the births in 1808 :Were 792,067. The vital statistics for Prance for 1908, according to theso the cabled figures, therefore are: ■Births V...............,..;.....ij, 792,067 . '-'•. Deaths -..„...;.;. 745,734 Excess of births over deaths , 46,333 ' Headway Instead of Loss.: -.'■,'■':..' '■'■ -.', ■ The Sgures mean that instead of Franco .having," as in 1907, an actual loss of 20,000 souls—that.' being the excess, of deaths' over had in 19ua an - actual »ain of 46,333 souls, that being the excess of births over deaths In 1907 France was a disappearing nation; in 1908 she made some headway. The fall in the excess of birth over deaths in (France since the beginning of the. present century down to 1906 is is follows:—In 1902, the excess of births was 84,000; 1903, 73,000; 1904, 57,000j;1805, 87,000; 1006, 27,000.'-In 1907 there were 20,000 more deaths than births. In 1908, 18,067" more births than deaths.' ■-■. English Birth-rate Increases. . ■''- -'■■ -." ." • ■ The vital statistics for England 'for 1908— though i not finally corrected—show that England had an increase in the birth-rate for tho first time since" 1895. The birth-rate in England, for 1908 works out approximately at 26.66 per thousand. The revised figures for 1907 showed the rate to be 28.3, a fall'of 0.8 from 1906, and the lowest ever reached. The inorease of even 0.36 is remarkable after a decline that has proceeded steadily since 1876, when the 1 rate was 36.3, with the exception of temporary, set-backs in 1891 and ' 1895. . ~ There can be no'doubt that the great fall in marriages in England in 1908 was due to (he depression in trade. The marriage rate per 1000 in the preceding years, the "boom" years, was:— ' ■ . . : " • ■ 1904,- .............. 15.2 1906 .. m 15 6 1905 .........v.7. 15.3 1907 ..... _... 15^8 But k<l9oß the .rate was only H. 9 . ,'