BIRTHS AND DEATHS
LATEST BRITISH FIGURES. FALL IN MATERNAL MORTALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. April 7. The jjopulation of England and Wales in the middle of last year was 41,215,000. Births last year numbered 621.204. The birth rate per thousand persons living was 15.1. which is .2 over the 1938 rate. The death rate was 11.6, the lowest recorded, except in 1930. The infant mortality rate was 53 per thousand live births, four per thousand below the previous lowest rate. Maternity mortality declined for the fourth year in succession, with a new low level, of 2.62 per thousand births. The whooping cough death rate per million of children under fifteen years reached a low record of 126.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 9
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