THE BRITISH BIRTH-RATE
LOWER THAN THE DEATHS. London, -March 18. The births during the fourth quarter of 1918 in England and Wales totalled 11U.775, and the deaths 211,218. This is the first, occasion on which the deaths imvo exceeded'(he births since registration began. Influenza was largely responsible, but thero would have been an excess of deaths without the epidemic. The ligures for tho whole of 1918 arc:— Births. (i(!2,773; deaths, 611,991. Tho avcrago annual excess of births over dentils in Hie previous live years was 237.GG1. The birth-rate in 1918 was 17.7 per thousand of the population, being the. lowest recorded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
(The birth-rales in England and Wales Piior to 19U during tho thirty years before the war ranged from 33.5 per thousand in 1881-1885 down to 23.8 in 1012. In Scotland the rato was a littlo higher; in Ireland it ranged between 22 and 21. Tho lowest national rate in that period was France, where it ranged from 21.7 down to 18 in 1911.]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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166THE BRITISH BIRTH-RATE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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