BIRTHS AND DEATHS
BRITISH FIGURES SHOW IMPROVEMENT, (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 23. Provisional estimates of the birth, death, and infantile mortality rates for 1938 were announced in a speech at Norwich by Mr Walter Elliot, Minister of Health. He said that the infantile mortality rate was down to 53 per 1000 live births, constituting a new low rate record. It is five below the rate of 1937, and four below the previous record low rate of 1935. The birth rate this year is higher than in 1937 at 15.1 live births per 1090 population. The death rate in 1938 is, with the exception of 1930, the lowest on record —11.6 per 1000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 5
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113BIRTHS AND DEATHS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 5
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