MIDDLE CLASS DYING
NI3AV NATIONAL PROBLESf.
■V striking niediml nrticln in "The Tim«." pnlilled "The Death of tho Middlp Clns«es." points out that tho exorWtanf, - tnxa.tion. high price* of food, nnd difficulties of honsinc arc- bringing about a new pressing national problem, and nuttirii a preminin on bachelorhood, with'the ine-vitaWe. consenucices of_inrrpused venereol disease and prostitution. The present mnrriago rate is 13.8 ner f!ioii.»nn.'l. the lowest ever recorded. Tim hirtli-rnte likewise continue? rapidly 'to drclin" from the same cruises, and is now 15.9 for *'>■* whole kingdom, pnninawl ivitli 27. 1 ! for the period i!'-TO-19iO. Stnt'stios for cln= c nre linnvoilnWp, but overc-lielmin? niedipnl l"=timony favours (■ho that the doeline is most mirkrfl n'mongst the middle -classes, where mony vounif couplps nrc_ niarrvin« nnd niienly snplrin? advice, on the Tvnunds that children viuW nres'enr coiylitions fire not a comfort, biit a privation and a drudgery.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 4
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144MIDDLE CLASS DYING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 4
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