INTERESTING CONTRASTS
The publication of our vital statistics for 1927 .suggests a comparison in certain important particulars between Britain and New Zealand. Our birthrate fell from 21.05 per 1000 in H t >26 to 20.29 in 1927; hut though this figure is certainly low, we may take heart of grace from the fact that the latest recorded birth-rate for .England and AYnles is 10.7 per 1000. Our death-rate per 1000 fell from 8.74 in 1920 to 8.00 in 1927, but the latest death-rate for England and Wales is 12.3 per 1000. Here the comparison is greatly in our favour. But in regard to infantile mortality our superiority is even more strikingly indicated. The infant mortality rate in New Zealand lias fallen since 1924 from 40.23 per 1000 live births to 38.66 per 1000—the lowest average on record. But for England and Wales the average is 69 per 1000, and even this shows a vast decrease from the high figure of 154 per 1000 recorded at the beginning of the century. These mortality figures show marked progress in Britain, but they also show that conditions in this young country are much more favourable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1928, Page 1
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192INTERESTING CONTRASTS Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1928, Page 1
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