GERMAN BIRTH-RATE.
i ' The Gorman Government is grentty i concerned over the rapidly-falling birth ' rate. The Ministry rf -Ilie Interior hns i issued a circular lo the various aiifhori- , ties urging them to make a, thorough in- ; vestigalion as to the causes. The Goy- - p.rnment is also looking more closely into the very high death rate among infants 1 under cno year of age, which 'prevails more particularly in those places where i women are largnly employed in industrial i and in heavy farm labour. By the So- - cialist newspapers the, decline is attrie buted to the industrial conditions, th< - high cost of living, and the heavy faxes. i . '
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1505, 30 July 1912, Page 9
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109GERMAN BIRTH-RATE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1505, 30 July 1912, Page 9
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