INCREASE IN BIRTHS
RECORDED IN BRITAIN.
WITH LOW DEATH RATE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, September 24. The number of live births in England and Wales during the June quarter this year was the highest recorded in any quarter since that of June, 1930. This year's figure was 167,557, which represented a birth rate of 16.2 per thousand, compared with 14.3 in the same period last year . The infantile mortality rate of 47 per thousand live births is the lowest rate in any June quarter, except 1940, and seven below the average ten preceding second quarLC The death rate of 11.3 per thousand was the lowest for any June quarter except in 1927, 1930 and 1933. The rate for the same quarter a year ago was 13.6.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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