INDIA (BIRTH AND DEATH RATES).

HC Deb 15 April 1929 vol 227 cc23-4W

Mr. DAY

asked the Under-Seeretary of State for India the birth and death rate for the Province of Bengal for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date?

Earl WINTERTON

The latest figures available are for the calendar year 1926. The rates for births and deaths registered in the Bengal Presidency, excluding the Chittagong Hill Tracts, were 27.4 and 24.7 per mille, respectively. As the result, however, of special inquiries instituted in connection with the Census Reports, it has been estimated that more than 26 per cent. of births and deaths in the Province are unrecorded.