ITALIAN BABY BONUS
PLAN DJ S APPOINT IN G ROME, Feb. 15.—-Although Fascist Italy is spending the equivalent of £ 1,200,G00 a year on! marriage leans and ben uses for babies, the results are partly satisfactory to the Ducc. ; Last year there was a, decline of nearly 12 per cent; in the number oi : marriages,' although the number of births increased roughly 5 per cent, over flhe previous year. Although there were fewer wedding,.s ' the Government si>ent- £9,000,(XX) on marriage loans, which were instituted at the end of ID7>7. Since .March. 1935, the “More Rabies;’ campaign '•was launched prizes for mothers and bonuses for triplets and large families have totalled £2,600,000. .The increased birth rate—from 22.7 # per 10CO to 23.6 per 1000, brought n 46,295 more babies than in 1937. Because births exceeded deaths there was an increase of 424,394 in the population, bringing the total to 44,056,000. Signor Mussolini hopes for a population of 60,000,000 by 1060. Before the war Italy’s birth rate was well over '3O per 1000. Last year it was only 23.6. \
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 175, 28 April 1939, Page 4
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175ITALIAN BABY BONUS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 175, 28 April 1939, Page 4
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