FECUNDITY AND THE AVAR.
(To the Editor of the "Saturday Review.") Sir,—? Mr. C. P. Ryder says in liis useful letter that the present war is largely due to "the incorrigible fecundity of German woman 011 tlio one hand, and, on the other, to the fact that the French view elf 'Life' and the French love of thrift have combined to limit very strictly the population of France," and he then refers to the very low birth-rate of the latter. I should like to point out, hUwever, that the fall of the birth-rate in France has not limited the population, aB the following ' figures of the last twenty years show:— 1893-97 1898-02 1903-07 1908-12 1913 Birth-rato 22.3 21.7 20.6 19.4 19.0 Death-rate 22.1 20.7 19.6 18.6 17.7 Survival-rate 0.2 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.3 It will be seen that the population increased faster with a birth-rate of 19 per thousand than with a birth-rate of 22.3 per thousand—l am, Sir, yours sincerely, B. DUNLOPj M.B.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 303, 11 September 1918, Page 6
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164FECUNDITY AND THE AVAR. Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 303, 11 September 1918, Page 6
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