Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-06 | Page 11 | Birth Rate in England Lowest except for 1918

Birth Rate in England Lowest for 1918 I LONDON March 5 United ed Press Press-AJ still further decrease In Inthe Inthe the birth rate for England nd Wales Vales Is disclosed by figures Issued Is sued by the regIstrar general The rate of Is a decline of 05 per perth th thousand usand from 1925 the lowet ever recorded except for the war year ear of 1918 Another bad year was 1917 but 1926 ha has fallen berow The extent to l the tho birth birthrate rate ha hat fallen may be judged from the fact that the annual average for England and Wales Vales for the years 1924 1838 was 29 The birth rate for England and Wales ales has fallen well vell below that tha t of I France and Belgium whose a rages r- r ages have hae been among among the of oC countries since the war The birti rate of France for 1025 was Greater satisfaction is from the lower rate shown by the mortality figures For Englant and Wales Vales the death rate stood at per thousand which was equal to that of 1923 the lowest rate eve ever recorded The Infant mortality rate Is 6 5 per 1000 births below that of 1925 and only 1 per thousand above that of 1923 the tho lowest recorded