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Show JAPAN'S DIVORCE RATE IS HIGHEST IN WORLD TOIvIO. Nov. 26. (Correspond' m e 'of the Associated Press) . Japan's ' I population during 1919 was increased 1 bj only 3yo,000 us against u usual rate' of 6J!8,00Ai aocording to an official report of tllC recent census. During. liGO. births numbered 1,823,48,1 and' deaths l.' 1 3.68 7. the nel gain, there-! I fore, . . rig 10 ' .' ' Reddest! nurubei of marvlngesj in conseque.nce of higher high-er cost of living is one- reason given by the authorities for the Tailing off. Cut it is probable thjg-t the principal cause Was an abnormally heavy infant mortality, due to, the Influenza Bpl-d( Bpl-d( mil The divorce rate in 1918 is tinoffi-. tinoffi-. iuiiy returned at 112 per thousand marriages This cohipares with a Gei -mah divorce ran of 21.6 which is the highest, m Europe, it should be re -membered thai these unofficial statistics sta-tistics are subject te correction. ' . |