FALLING BIRTH-RATE.
;- ; ■/: .IN:NEW> SOUTH--WHALES/?// 1 / :' ONLT-THEEE. ABOVE BRITISH i v ■■ ;■: > ■,;• ,>," ■ .bate.! ■+ /:./.;* ;{ ://;.;/} < By Teleirraph'-Prdss Association—CobyrlEht.' '-■-"■ /' ';'// /Sydney; February.; 25.■/'. ■The vital statistics ,'prepared '.by the State- Statistician,/ which.' (mow-' an increase in- population''in 1909 /of'-40,438 comprising/excessyof ■ births/over/deaths ,27,930,' and 'excess of. arrivalsover, departures 12,508);/also.' "show \ that; New - South Wales had a- birth-rate' as high, as; 43.9 in 1864, but that it has.now''fallen. to,"20.8; Australia is very low, on the /world's birthlist, although 'the'low'.death-rate''.more .'than' counterbalanced, theilow/ birth-rate.
. ■. [Referring to the vital' / statistics of:the United: Kingdom for, 1908,-: the "."Daily Mail", writes; "The-birth-rate,' : 26is p'er 1000,/ was 0.2 above that of 1907 'but .was. 1.(1 below the average for the previous ten years. .Of.European 'countries only-Swe-den, Ireland,': and France (20.2) and of our. .colonies only /Victoria and /South Australia,, 6how a' lower birth-rate.]./..
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 753, 28 February 1910, Page 5
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130FALLING BIRTH-RATE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 753, 28 February 1910, Page 5
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