Show Spanish Birth Rate Now It Is in Spain that they are ore beginning to worry about the rising death rate and the falling failing birth rate Dr Gomez Ocana presents In Il m SIglo Medico Barcelona statistics statistics' for several several sev seve eral years showing that In 1912 the death rate was per 1000 tion and that by 1017 before the advent advent ad ad- vent of the pandemic of Influenza it had risen to 2 2010 IG And the birth rate fell from per pel thousand In l 1912 12 to 22 in 1917 Official figures for tor l 1918 18 are not yet available but hut In the city of Madrid the death rate rose in that year to while the birth rate fell to 2670 The figures for 1918 1018 however howe are abnormal abnormal ab ab- normal because of the pandemic |