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THE birth-rate in the United States, based on returns from thirty-four of the forty-eight States and covering only the first nine months of 1936, was the lowest on record, according to a provisional report recently issued by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Med. Rec, Feb. 17). The death-rate was slightly higher than that of any year within the last five, so that the natural excess of the birth-rate over the death-rate fell to a minimum of about 5 per 1,000.
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Birth-rate in the United States. Nature 139, 959 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139959b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139959b0