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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    the corrected legitimate birth-rate of Ireland is 35-6 and that of England and Wales 2 7 ‘3 per 1,000 of population. They are also adding to the population of Ireland at a higher rate than in 1881. The only country showing a stationary birth-rate is Austria (94-x).ls Norway (1077) shows a decrease of 5 per cent. The other countries may be classified according to percentage decline in corrected birth-rate between 1881 and 1901-03 as follows :— 5—xo per cent.:— Per Cent. Per Cent. Sweden (101’9) 18 7 Italy (95'7) 7 10— 15 per cent.:— Per Cent. Per Cent. Scotland S.W. (103 0) 10 German Empire (104‘4)... 1 2 Bavaria (113’3) South Wales19 (105-1) I 2 Prussia (104'7) Scotland N. (1124) 13 South Scotland (102'6) 12 Scotland (104‘5) 13 Scotland N.W. (1174) ... 12 North Wales (97'2) 13 15 — 20 per cent.:— Per Cent. Per Cent. Denmark (101 0) ... 15 England and W7ales (93 A 17 Prance (65'1) ••• VS Selected rural counties] North Scotland (107'5) ... 15 of England and Wales l 18 Selected urban counties 1 (9/ ’7) J of England and Wales r 15 JNew Zealand (99'9) 18 (92-0) 1 20—25 per cent.:— Per Cent. Per Cent. Saxony (100’4) .... 24 Victoria (98'1) 25 Belgium (109 0) .... 24 Over 2 5 per cent.:— Per Cent. New South Wales (104-6).... 33 The preceding figures in the main tell their own tale, if the figures in brackets, indicating the relative position from which the decline has occurred, be kept in view. Denmark has evidently travelled much further on the road of declining birth-rate than Sweden, and still further than Norway. In Scotland the decline has been nearly as great as in England, but England’s actual position is much lower than that of Scotland. The greatest decline of all is shown by New South Wales; Victoria, Belgium, and Saxony coming next, and then New Zealand. 18 Kefer to footnote on p. 16. 19 Excluding Glamorganshire.