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THE Text (final) volume of the Registrar General's Statistical Review, England and Wales, 1930, has been published (H.M. Stationery Office, 2s. 6d. net). It contains the official commentary on the vital statistics contained in Parts i. and ii., Medical and Civil Tables, already issued. The population at the middle of the year was estimated at 39,806,000 persons, made up of 19,075,000 males and 20,731,000 females, the excess of females being most marked in the age groups between thirty and fifty-five years. The death-rate, 11.4 per 1000 population, is the lowest on record. The deaths ascribed to cancer (57,883) are the highest yet recorded, but when standardised are almost the same as, and no higher than, the preceding year. Attention is directed to the increasing mortality associated with motor-vehicles, and particularly with motor-cycles. During the six years 1925–30, motorcycles were associated with the deaths of 2752 young men between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five years, which is 2.8 times the number killed in the preceding 14 years. The corresponding numbers of young women were 316 and 79, a fourfold increase.
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Population of England and Wales. Nature 130, 18–19 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130018d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130018d0