BRITISH BIRTHRATE
DROP OF 40,000 IN FOUR YEARS Extracting the figures from the weekly and quarterly returns, it is possible to give approximate numbers of last year’s births and deaths some weeks in advance of the authoritative figures of the Registrar-General. Returns are available for London and 107 great towns and county boroughs (with a population of 19,540,000) and are subject to correction before the final figures are issued. In each quarter births were fewer than in 1926, both in London and in the great towns. Total births registered in the great towns were 339,047 last year, compared with 355,195 in 1926, 364,810 in 1925, and 379,048 in 1924; in London the numbers were 76,234 last year and 78,825 in 1926, 82,401 in 1925, and 85,147 in 1924. Deaths in the great towns numbered 239,281, as against 225,327 in 1926, and London 64,043, compared with 52,431. Comparative rates of births and deaths in the two years were; 1926. 1927. Birth rate in great towns 18.20 17.55 Birth rate in London . . . . 17.10 16.55 Death rate in great towns 11.6 12.3 Death rate in London .. 11.6 11.8
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 8
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185BRITISH BIRTHRATE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 8
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