Abstract
THE author, who as former principal medical officer of the National Health Insurance Commission and medical officer of health of two London boroughs had ample opportunities of studying the various problems of population, has given a lively and lucid exposition of this subject in this little work. the historical aspects are first set forth, special attention, of course, being given to the work of Malthus, followed by an account of the modern methods of measuring the growth of the population. The author then discusses the causes of the great increase in population which began in the eighteenth century and continued until about sixty years ago, when a marked decline in the birth-rate began. Finally, the important subject of birth control receives full consideration, including its social, economic and political results.
Population: To-day's Question
G. F.
McCleary
By. Pp. 222. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1938.) 6s. net.
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Biology. Nature 144, 193 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144193b0
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