Show reports reveal R veal aging of eng ish population again the fl figures ures of the registrar general show that as a people the english are growing older as a result ot of the falling failing birth and death rates writes the london correspondent of the journal of the american 3 medical edical association the birth rate for 1934 was per thousand of population in the last thirty odd years the rate has been halved this fall Is without parallel in the history of this or any other country the infant death rate in 1934 was 59 per ino thousand usand live births in the 1901 19 loo it was the general death rate h has is also been falling steadily in the 1001 1005 it was per thousand of population in 1031 it was which was 04 above that for 1033 1933 the lowest on record the increasing aging of the population Is shown by the proportion of the persons over the age ae of seventy years per of the total in 1011 they numbered in 1021 in 1031 and in 1932 1032 the registrar general therefore describes the increase in the number of old people as an outstanding feature of our vital statistics |