BOY BABY RECORD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 209, 15 September 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

BOY BABY RECORD.

HIGHEST KNOWN BIRTH FIGURES. Birth statist'es in recent months m the '.Hi great towns in England and Wales show an inoreaMiiy excess in the number of male children horn and support th.' popular idea that during wars tho proportion of boy bibios to girl bab : es increases above the normal aver:'.e;e. In the first quarter of th's year, according to the Registrar-General's return just published. 1,032 males were born to 1.000 females. In the second quarter, the n'ntli, tenth, and eleventh months of the war, the boys born were 1.0-13 to 100(1 girls. In the third quarter- that : s. the quarter ended September 30 the number of boy births was 1,0 V) to 1,000 girls. The ratio 's surprisingly high and beats all records. Tho highest proportion of male to temalo Irrtlis since accurate statist!-. •> have been kept was 1.0.V1 to 1.000 n 13-14. Tlie average ratio for the second and third quarters in 1912-I*l was 1,037 boys to 1,000 girls. Th," marriage rate in England and Wales during the quarter ended September 30 was 21.3 persons married for every 1,000 of the population, the highest rate yet recorded since the establishment of civil registraton.