FEWER BABIES—AND WHY.
Why arc there fewer babies in Britain every year? Official figures, quoted in the London Daily Mail, show that a steady fall in the birth-rate for 50 years reached last year a new low record of J 0.3 per JOOO of the population.' Professor Leonard Hill, of the National Institute of Medical Research, at, Hampstead, said to a .Mail reporter: One reason is the fact that people marry later. The available years in which couples can bring up a family are fewer. And then again, children have become so expensive. The fertility of our people is kept down by crowded town life, lack of open air and life-giving sunshine, wrong feeding, and many other mistakes of modem life-
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17975, 21 March 1930, Page 3
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121FEWER BABIES—AND WHY. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17975, 21 March 1930, Page 3
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