VITAL STATISTICS
MARKED DECLINE IN BIRTHS. Tho most noticeable feature aboutthe vital statistics for the two months of tho vear already gone is the decline in tho birth rate. The figures may readjust; themselves over the whole year, but there was a fall of 38 births m tho month (compared with the corresponding month of last year). The figurer for tiie month are as follow:— 1917. jJIB. Births 212 174 Deaths 73 75 Marriages 75 77 „ in Offico 29 31 The figures for tho year so far (conv. pared with the corresponding period ol last year) are as follow:— 1917. 1918. Births 436 401 Deaths 138 136 Marriages ISfi 146 „ in Office 4.9 63
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 6
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114VITAL STATISTICS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 6
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