Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-03-23 | Page 14 | England's Birth Rate

bered 929.293, and were In th proportion propor-tion of 27.2 per 1000 of the total population popu-lation of both sexes 'and all ages; this-is this-is the lowest rate recorded since civil registration was established. In the year 1876 the birth rate attained in this country, the highest point on record, viz., 3.3 per 1000 living; since that date the ratio has, with trifling exceptions, excep-tions, steadily fallen, until in the year 1905 it wag, as already stated, no more than 27.2 per 1000 living. The birth rate calculated in this way was .7 ptr 1000 below that recorded in 1904, and was 1.8 per 1000 below the average in the ten years 1895-1904. . Borne of the consequences of the decreasing de-creasing birth rate in this country are modified by- a decreasing death rate. The deaths registered in England and Wales during the year -1905, numbered 520,031, and were in the proportion of. 15.2 per 1000 persons living. The rate was the lowest recorded since civil registration reg-istration was established. London Globe. ENGLAND'S BIRTH RATE. The report of the registrar-general of births, marriages and deaths in England Eng-land and Wales for 1905 is issued as a blue book. It sys that the population of England and Wales, enumerated at the end of March, 1901, consisted of 32,527,843 persons. From that date un-til un-til the middle of 1905 the number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 1,730.576. The estimated population in the middle of 1905 was 34,151977. . The births registered in 1905 num-