BRITISH BABIES
(British Offioial Wireless.)
Decline in Birth Rate is ExaggerateH
RUGBY, Feb. 22. j The Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley jWood, discussing the trend of popula-1 |tion in a speech at Ashbridge, said most ;of the forecasta hitherto published exipeeted an earlier decline in the population of ,the country than facts would appear to justify. The birthrate had 'remained approximately constant for 'four years in succession. It was impossible to predict and dangerous to reply upon, a definite eheck to the long continued downward movement but the .matt.er was much more open than gen.erally assumed. The primary needs of the situation appeared to be a close and continuous survey of current population movements and investigations into the causes operating in the decline of the birthrate as an indispensile preliminary for the formulation of any pplicy with regard to them. An alteration of the esisting birth .registers was already under consideration for the jwupoia of adtSng to jlra exigting-aiaterial gt fertflity pittiistics.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370224.2.56
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 5
Word Count
162BRITISH BABIES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in