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THE text volume of the Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales for 1934, recently issued, contains the official commentary on the two volumes of vital statistics already published (London: H.M. Stationery Office. 3s. 6d. net). The report deals with the statistics of births, deaths and marriages registered in 1934, estimates of population, and other matters. The estimated population of England and Wales in the middle of 1934 was 40,467,000 persons, of whom 19,412,000 were males and 21,055,000 females. The total is 117,000, or 0-29 per cent greater than the estimate for the previous year, and 515,000 or 1-3 per cent greater than the population at the census of 1931. The average ages of the estimated population, which are gradually increasing, are 32-4 years for males and 34-2 for females. In addition to reviewing the mortality from various causes, the report also contains several studies of mortality. One of these deals with the handicaps suffered by the winter-born compared with the summer-born child, and another with the mortality rate from pregnancy and child-bearing for the wives of men in various social groups.
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Vital Statistics for England and Wales for 1934. Nature 139, 146 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139146b0
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