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THE widely held belief that decline in fertility among women is directly related to the degree of urbanization which has taken place in a community is not borne out. By investigations which have been made by R. S. Barclay and W. O. Kermack (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., Section B, 43, Part 11, No. 9). Survey the trends of fertility in various sections of the population of Scotland from 1860 onwards, they gave special attention to the comparison of urban areas and rural areas. Difficulties in assembling the statistics arose because of the alterations introduced from time to time in the basis of classification used by the Registrar-General ; but these were overcome in various ways. The areas investigated were the four chief cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, and two groups of counties, one typical of the Highlands (Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Inverness and Nairn), and the other typical of the Borders (Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh and Berwick).
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Fertility of Scottish Women. Nature 163, 316 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163316c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163316c0