THE GATHERER.
THE BIRTH RATE OF FRANCE.
The ‘ Continental Gazette ’ notes that the birth rate in France is steadilygdirninishing ; so is that of marriage, but in a lesser degree, the number of children resulting from these marriages having greatly declined. In the class composed of petty tradesmen or well to-do peasants there is seldom more than one child per marriage, and it is stated that in one of the royal communes in Picardy the number of children among the best-off of the peasants is thirty-seven for thirty-five families. What, asks the ‘ Gazette,’ is to be the ultimate destiny of France if this decline of the population continues ?
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 138, 16 July 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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107THE GATHERER. Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 138, 16 July 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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