The decline of human fertility in the United Kingdom and other countries as shown by corrected birth-rates / by Arthur Newsholme and T.H.C. Stevenson.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, 1857-1943.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: The decline of human fertility in the United Kingdom and other countries as shown by corrected birth-rates / by Arthur Newsholme and T.H.C. Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    city has a corrected birth-rate of i6-65, not very different from that of the above three American communities; but a crude birth-rate—owing to its larger proportion of women married— Of 20'6< It is evident then, that taking into consideration the probable understatement of the facts in the American results, the condition of voluntary prevention of child-bearing in the native populations of Rhode Island and Boston has gone far beyond that reached by Paris. Whether it has touched bottom, as indicated by the registered increase of the birth-rate since 1875, or whether this increase is caused by greater completeness of registration, must lie regarded as doubtful. In view of the much higher percentage of married amongst the foreign than the native born, it is of interest to compare the marriage figures of native born of native parents and native born of foreign parents. In this case, contrary to what one would have expected, the rates are much higher for the former class—45-8 against 35-4 in column 12 for Providence, 1900; and 42‘i against 33’5 for Boston. HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.