The Falling Birth-rate

Abstract

IN her lecture, delivered at University College, London, on February 25, Miss Elderton, of the Galton Laboratory, in dealing with the falling birth-rate, pointed out that the decrease is least acute in the mining districts; the engineering trades, which represent the best paid of the artisan class, come next; while textile districts coincide with residential districts in showing the biggest decrease; and she asks if there is some cause which operates to a special degree in certain classes.