Fewer and better babies : birth control, or, The limitation of offspring by prevenception / by William J. Robinson.

  • Robinson, William J. (William Josephus), 1867-1936
Date:
1926
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    corresponding period of 1912. Instead of producing a greater increase of popu¬ lation, the deaths increased by 12,000, so that the survivals actually diminished/^ These facts, besides showing that France is not dying out, show also inci¬ dentally, what we have referred to many times before, that an increase in the birth rate does not even necessarily mean an in¬ crease in the population; because it can be, and often is, balanced or overbalanced by an increased death rate. That there is less poverty, less wretched¬ ness in France than in countries where the poor have not yet learned the secret of limiting their offspring, everybody will testify who has lived in France and in Italy or Spain, for instance. The differ¬ ence is not so noticeable in the slums of large cities—they are wretched every¬ where—but it is unmistakable in the smaller cities and in the villages. As to the decadence of France, its