A birth-rate of 16.7 per 1,000 of the estimated population, registered for England and Wales during the third quarter of 1927, is the lowest rate ever recorded for this period of any year, 'The rate is 1.1" per thousand below that recorded in the corresponding quatter of 1926. The births numbered 164,000, and were 7,071 fower than the' preceding quarter and 10,828 fewer than the same months of 1926.
The deaths numbered 2,263, and were 15,245 fewer than in' the preceding quarter, and 1,558 more than the corresponding quarter of 1926. The figures corresponded to an annual rote of 9.4 per 1,000, The general death-rate was 0.2 per 1,000 above that recorded during the corresponding quarter of last year.
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