Show S.- S. Palling Falling Birth Hirth Hale A government report of oC vital statEs statis ties tics recently published covering co the decade ending with the year car l OO re re- re a marked decline in the birth I rate of or England and Wales les In 1876 the rate was as high as per 1 1000 hut but the end of or 1900 It was 28 The birth rate I is falling Calling more rapidly than that of all any other civilized country The flue decline has hns not been beOn arre arrested ted since 1900 and It Is believed that if It con COIl unties to fall In similar liar proportion the population will be he as s as that of France or Austria This l ads a London journal to re remark re- re mark that In the Indu industrial develop elop ment mont of the tho countr country with wish men and both working In the mills a high hl-h standard of comfort and a sub suh- fa mil family Income he be may attained at- at tamed hut but too lon a price mIce ma way may he be paid tot for thc these o lhing in the the dolorous ous percentage g of infantile mortality anti and an apparent consumption of the vital itai energies of th the tho people This is j ii a sacrifice ee which no nation can perma perma- endure The rho wa wasting tin effect upon child life liCe in the gl great at manufacturing towns is fi alarmingly IL shown by the statement that while many of the agricultural e countries contain extensive areas fn in which tIme the deaths of Infants under tinder on ono one year eur average c less t than lan 10 per por cent o of the births birth there are others and chiefly chief chief- ly 13 industrial countries that contain considerable areas arow in which the wa was waste t of or Infant life lire Is 11 twice as 38 great as In I the rural are area |