BIRTH RATE RISES
Slight English Increase (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 25, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, January 24. A slight increase in the birth rate for England and Wales, the first to occur for several years, is shown in returns for 1934 issued to-day. These show that per 1000 of population births were 14.8. deaths 11.8 and infant mortality 59. The'blrth rate was an increase of 0.4 above the 1933 figures, which were a low record. The death rate is 0.5 below that for 1933 and only 0.4 above that for 7930, which is the lowest recorded. The infant mortality rate is five per 1000 below that for 1933, and is also the lowest recorded, the previous lowest being that for 1930—namely, 60.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 7
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122BIRTH RATE RISES Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 7
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