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THE “New Handbook of Social Statistics relating to Merseyside” prepared by the Statistics Division, Social Science Department, the University of Liverpool (University Press of Liverpool, 1940. Is. net), gives a statistical statement of the position on Merseyside in relation to trade, employment and other social conditions immediately before the outbreak of war. The sections on elementary education and housing have been omitted and rather more material is included relating to the changing state of employment. The first section on the trend of births, deaths and population directs attention to the continuous and steep fall in the birth-rate until the last few years, the level reached in 1938 being about two thirds of that recorded in the 1911-15 quinquennium. The trends of the general death-rate and infant mortality-rate show no evidence of great scope for a further reduction of the general death-rate, and infant mortality is unlikely to decline at the rate experienced in the earlier years of the century. In each of the four boroughs there appears to have been a more or less stable position by 1938, with even a slight tendency to a natural increase in population.
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Social Statistics of Merseyside. Nature 146, 206–207 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146206a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146206a0