LOWEST ON RECORD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 776, 28 March 1910, Page 4

LOWEST ON RECORD.

' h; BRITISH BIETH^AND^DEATH. j : ::/.-^.-;- ; -'-^V^^^ ; 'v^V; ; " ■i Statistics for 1909 .'just by'.' the; ■British vEegistrar-General, show a ,'fur:ther". decline"iu birth, death, and .marriage rates. The birth-rate was.2s.G;per 'lOOO,: which, is "0.9 pcr"1000 below.the rate Sn 1908, and any other■ year': on record.. 'Compared. witii the avcrag'e ; Hn'' ! the 'ten- years 1*39-1908; '.the birth-rate in''l9o9 showed'a decrease iof ■• 2.2 : : per .1000.'", 'The', death-rate .:was "34.5 per .1000, whioh- was, 0.2-. per. 1000 -be--, •'low. the.'rate~ih:l9oßj. : -and'lower; than-the • rate 'in'-iray..other year,on-.record ;com : ipared.'-with the' average.'.rate in ; the'ten. fears 1899-1908, vtho", death-rate'.in -v.1909showed: a debrease 0f'1.6 perlOOO. '..:•: :'■■:■ Of the 517;782 deaths,'99,sll,were'of,in- ; tfahts-'Undei.'.one :yeai'. v of. age,; 231,681. of .(persons aged, betwcen,„.pne ;year... and. 6CU years; .and ?18G,590 of. personsv/iaged . -60-. .years' and-upwards;,- The ;ratey of. mbr-., .tality.,among infants iupde'r.'.one, year/.io. ?1000 -registered'births was 109,, which is. -ai..per':iooo r be'low; : th'e .r'ateiii : l9oß;"'. The yrate-iri 1909%as:;lp',wer. ; fha'h iii';,aiy.other? /year" on record;)';Compared'-with'., the in the . ten. years ,j 1899-1908, - the : iiate' of infantile mortality in 1900 show- , cd.a'decrease:of 29:-'p'er:-1000 j 40,008 deaths were. attributed |to 'epidemic disease's; c'or- '. responding: to a'-ratp of : lVl2.'.per -1000'.Hvr ; ing,' : &iam%t' r and... I'M,. ■resp.ee.' ;tivelytin'"-the three preceding years'.: ;.■:.? ■■'-.■.Marriage ''statistics.■ are".npt /available yet for' the'.whole'-'year.'''ln the', third quarter! of/1909. the'mafriages' ,o'f,'. : 147,578 '■ipersQns :'we're" registered, to.' ;«n annual rate of 5 16.4-persons .married" <per "]IOOO ;of : ;the "estimated ,-'population;. '. against; an' average- rate, of .17.3 .per. 1000 (in the third. quarter"' of the'- ten years' -ti8994905.: v-- - ■-' '.":^\-r:-■■:■ ><.;£<;, : ■ Ainong registration counties with pbp'u- ; lations exceeding 100,000,..fie; lowest-mar-, : xiage-rates were 11.3 ■ in f Shropshire-, .11.9 in Carnarvonshire, 12.6 in Dorsetshire, 12.7 ,iii: Norfolk::and;in .. Herefordshire, ~12.8 ;in Denbighshire, :13.1 in_Kent,.-,-apij. 13.2 in Wiltshire; ;thb: highest,ratesiwe're..17.1 in Nottinghamshire, 17.2.iriiBediordf" ; ..shire,.. 17.4y in. Glamorganshire;.. 17:5cdin: .■ -in 'Ca'rm'arthenshire,-r--18.0;C !in.'Lancashire 'and- in, illoninouth'shivej:. ,18.8 in Oxfordshire, and 19.1.in london. '.-