Show BIRTHS twenty four hundred and eighty babies were born bora in new york city in the last week of july in the same week only 1205 persons died in the city if the same ratio of births and deaths COUtin continue Ue through the year and prevailed all over the country our population would soon grow crow so large that we could not support it As a matter of fact the national birth rate in the united states is rapidly approaching the death rate the proportion is now about 20 deaths to every twenty three births A century and a half ao ago an english clergyman named malthus wrote a learned essay in which he calculated that the pressure of population upon the means of subsistence would make it impossible for all people on earth in the century now to get food enough to eat malthusian theory was taken seriously by y many economists until recently but somehow it working out right eight now we have a surplus of most food stuffs and the birthrate is still declining |