DOMINION’S FALLING BIRTH RATE.
LAST YEAR’S FIGURES THE LOWEST YET. The lowest birth-rate yet recorded in New Zealand was that of last year, according to the annual report of the Health Department presented to Parliament yesterday. The death-rate was shown at 8.45 per 1000 of population, as against 8.74 in 1926. The infantile mortality rate, 38.74 per 1000, was slightly less than the previous year. “The brth-rate of 29.29 per 1000,” states the Director-General (Dr. T. 11. A. Valintine), “is not satisfactory. It is the lowest yet recorded in the country. This is a matter of grave concern. I have no sympathy with advocates of birth-control, who appear to be overjoyed by the fact that relatively fewer children are being born in a country so favoured as New Zealand, for, as stated in a previous report, ‘there is no doubt that our population is best replenished and our empty spaces best filled by our own natural increase. The new-born infant, in other words, is our best immigrant.’ ”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3827, 4 August 1928, Page 3
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167DOMINION’S FALLING BIRTH RATE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3827, 4 August 1928, Page 3
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