HC Deb 23 June 1920 vol 130 c2210W
Mr. NEWBOULD

asked the Minister of Health the number of births in the first quarter of the present year and for the same quarter in previous years, or other figures which will show in a simple form the normal number of births in years before the War, the decrease during the War, and the increase since the War?

Dr. ADDISON

The births registered in England and Wales in the first quarters of the last eleven years were:—

1910. 1911. 1912. 1913. 1914. 1915.
221,684 223,585 222,600 216,629 217,414 221,523
1916. 1917. 1918. 1919. 1920.
194,965 178,729 162,308 144,920 271,082