[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.
- Shropshire Council
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ot l!.nglana ana vvaies. in me lu ycais loyu—loyy lu naa __ generally, and during the last 5 years about 8%. This difi'erence in the birth-rates, which otherwise might have considerable significance, is I think entirely accounted for by the diffence in age distribu¬ tion of the population. In England and Wales 32.3% of the ])opulation are between 20 40 years of age, the most active child-bearing jieriod, whereas between the same ages in Shropshire there is only 28.7% of the population. There has been practically no diminution of the birth rate during the last five years.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30086450_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
