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CLOSE SURVEY.
Alteration To Existing Birth Regulations.
Press Association—Copyright. Rugby, February 22.
Th© Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, discussing the trend of population in a speech at Ashbridge, said most of the forecasts hitherto published expected an earlier decline in the population of Britain than the facts appeared to justify. The birth rate had remained approximately constant for four years, in succession. It was impossible to predict and dangerous to rely upon a definite check to the long-continued downward movement, but the matter was much more open than was generally assumed. The primary needs of the situation appeared to be a close and continuous survey of current population movements and investigations into the causes operating in the decline of the birth rate as an indispensibie preliminary for the formation of any policy with regard to them. Alteration of the existing birth registers was already under consideration for the purpose of adding to the existing material of fertility statistics.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5
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162NOT SO BLACK Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5
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