§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDY (Cavan, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the number of births and the number of deaths which took place in Ireland during the years 1905, 1906, 1907; and will he say what percentage the figures bear to the increase or otherwise per thousand of the population.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) In the year 1905 the births registered in Ireland numbered 102,832, and the deaths 75,071, the rate of decrease, owing to emigration in the population, estimated to the middle of the year 1905, being 0.7 per 1,000. In 1906 the births were 103,536, the deaths 74,427, and the rate of decrease, owing to emigration, 1.6 per 1,000, and in 1907 the births were 101,742, 941 the deaths 77,334, and the rate of decrease, owing to emigration, 3.4 per 1,000 of the estimated population.