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IN the recently published report on the State of Public Health of Dublin for the year 1938 the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Matthew Russell, states that the estimated population of the city was 477,000, the density of the population being 25·4 per acre, compared with 40·4 in 1929. The birth-rate, which was 24·4 per 1000 of the population, has shown a continuous decline since the beginning of the century, when the rate was 33 per 1000. The death-rate has shown a continuous but greater decline. In 1900 it was 30·5, whereas in 1938 it was 13·31, a drop of approximately 57 per cent. The infant mortality, while showing a considerable decline from that in the previous two years, was 98 per 1000 births, as compared with 106 in 1937 and 115 in 1936, is higher than the average—97—for the previous ten years. In 1934 the figure was as low as 74. The maternal mortality in childbirth showed a rate of 2·5 per 1000 births; the average rate for the provious ten years had been 3·07.
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Demography of Dublin. Nature 144, 1043 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441043c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441043c0