Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1946-11-29 | Page 3 | Birth Rate Dropping

Birth Rate Dropping j Continued decline in the high birth j rate of the war years was noted in j registration statistics for 105. Thp figures were released by the U. S. : Public Health service. I Total cf officially recorded births last year was 2.735.45S, comparei with 2.7.';4.PI0 in lf4-. a decline of ! 2.1 per cent. The b:r!h rate in ! , was 19.6 per .0''0 pr,riatjf.n. against 20.2 the year before ar.d 21.5 ' in 1943. The laft-narr.od was the i highest annual rale during the war j years. j