Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-18 | Page 3 | Germany's Declining Birth Rate Alarms

GERMANYS GERMANY'S DECliNING BIRTH RATE AlARMS ALARMS' BERLIN nERLIN Feb 17 11 Via London Fob Feb 18 18 Th The declining birth rate rata in Germany Ger- Ger many which was attracting attention before the war is receiving more serious se see se- se I rious consideration at the present time in view of the losses sustained in the field A representative of or the ministry predicted that unless a radical radical rad rad- rad ical leal change should be made Germany would soon be in the Position 0 or of France with deaths exceeding births The speaker said one of the gravest hindrances to the tho growth of ot t the P population pop pop- was in the number of ot premature prema prema- deliberately an anevil ture births caused ta-n ta evil which was not confined to hI the he classes poorer i. i fi poorer The minister of education M informed 11 the tike committee that the government already had taken the tho matter under conferring with consideration and was specialists in an an effort to devise ways of ot remedying the evil