Meat and the Death Rate
„ T.-H» . An M.D. recently writing; to the "London Echo, draws attention to the vital statistics of New Zealand, and •draws • »om6 important conclusions irora comparing them with the English oues. It appears that the death Tat© of New Zealand is lower than that of almost any known community, the surplus of births over deaths being 28 peri 1000, whereas m Englaud it is 131. 'and in France 13 per 1000. But then the average New Zealander consumes from 2001 b to 2501 b of meat par year as compared with 120 consumed in America and 110 in Englaud. This, the writer says, is the reason why the deatb rate at Home has fallen so much late of years. Last year 2,500,000 frozen sheep were imported, and as the birth rate has considerably fallen, we have a nation much better fed than formerly.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 146, 3 June 1890, Page 4
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