FALLING BIRTH-RATE
"Empire is Doomed Unless it Improves (Received 2, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. Sir Leqnard HUI, director of research, St. John Clinic and Institute of Physical Medicine, in a speech, warned his hearers that unless tlie birth rate improved the British Empire was doomed. England's population in 2037 would bt half London' s present totai. "As the population falls there will be great social troubles and the laughter and vitality of youth will be replaced by the infirmities of age.5* he said. "Rents and taxes are too high and people cannot alford babies."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 5
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