Show Low Lov Rate Birth-Rate Causes Alarm in Britain Ii I i Only Sweden Has Fewer Infants Infants Infants In In- Per Capita London Great Great Britain now has the lowest but one birth rate of ot any country In an the world world the the sole e ex exception exception ex- ex is Sweden Sweden and and economists are somewhat alarmed warmed over the possibilities pos pos- this forecasts The census taken throughout Great Britain reveals re that there has bas been an nn almost unbroken fall all fallIn fallin allIn in the birth rate during the last ten years It has hns been reduced to the level of at per thousand population population tion Lion which Is more than half baIt less than In 1800 1830 and only about two two- thirds of of oC- that recorded In prewar years S. S P. P Vivian the registrar gen eral In his report warns Though further slight Increments In the total total total to to- tal population may be expected durIng during during dur dur- ing the next two decades owing to toa toa toa a rapidly expiring but not quite exhausted ex ex- bausted hausted momentum Imparted by the higher birth rates of ot the past there can be no doubt that falling a n considerable considerable considerable con con- rise Lise above the present rate birth-rate figure figure ot of which there is no sign at present the present the population maximum will wall then be reached and will be followed in its turn by a small but increasing decline Vivian Inn adds that at Its present rate the birth rate Is la Insufficient to retain a stationary population Inthe In La Inthe Lathe the future The report points out that In spite of ot the fact that marriage rates have been well wen maintained particularly at the younger ages at which the bulk of births occur and of ot the further further further fur fur- ther fact that the exceptional postwar postwar postwar post post- war spurt In the birth rate Itself had passed Its maximum at the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning of ot the last period of ot ten years the total births registered between between be be- tween hveen 1931 1021 are more than a million and a n quarter fewer than they were In the preceding period perIod- a period which covered the war years cars when the birth rate sank to levels never before recorded In this country The births were between and fewer than those of the last completely normal ten years from 1001 1901 to 1911 |