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ACCORDING to a return published by the Registrar -General, the birth-rate in England and Wales during the year 1937 is provisionally estimated at 14·9 live births per thousand of the population, and the crude death-rate at 12·4 deaths per thousand of the population. The number of deaths of children under one year, per 1000 live births, was 58. The birthrate for 1937 is 0·1 above that for 1936, 0·2 above that for 1935 and 0·5 above that for 1933— the lowest on record. The crude death-rate is the highest recorded since 1929 and is 0·3 above that of 1936, an increase which is largely associated with the heavy influenza mortality of the first quarter of the year. The infant mortality is 1 below that of 1936, and only 1 above that of 1935—the lowest recorded.
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Vital Statistics in Great Britain. Nature 141, 197 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141197d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141197d0