MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS
NATURE RESTORES LOSSES
More boys have been born during the last ten years in England and Wales than.in any previous ten years (states an English exchange). There is always a slight preponderance of boys, but birth statistics' for 1919-1920 show an unparalleled increase. The highest point was reached in 1919, immediately after the war, when 1060 boys were born to every 1000 girls. Since then the number of boys.born to every 1000 girls has been: —1920, 1052; 1921, 1051: 1922, 1049; 1923,1044; 1924, 1046; 1925, 1045; 1926, 1041; 1927, 1042; 1923, 1042; 1929, 1043. The total number of boys born between 1919 and 1929 was 4,478,076, which is nearly three-quarters of a million more than the number of girls.
"It is a definite scientific fact that more boys, are born after every great war, to balance the proportion of the population," a leading authority on eugenics said: "In fact,, if the infant mortality continues to be reduced, there will bo a definite shortage of wives in twenty to thirty years."
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Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 13
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174MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 13
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