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THE S/nnCalifornia Blames Birth Control For Record Low Number of BabiesSACRAMENTO, Cat, July 32 UPI —Alleged “wholesale methods o/ birth control, an influx of elderly people and the widely advertised“gin marriage” law were blamedvariously by health authorities today for the fact that California has the lowest per capita.baby production in the nation.The disclosure that the golden state, with all its alleged charms of climate and scenery, its quantity production of romance and supposedly fastest growing population stood at the bottom of the list of states in this respect, was made in Washington yesterday by the census bureau.For 1034, California births totaled 12.7 per 1000 of population. New Mexico topped the lisL with a rate of 27.0.“It is a well-known fact,” said Dr. J, D. Dunshec, sLate health director, “that many of the people who come to California to live arc elderly.“That fact and the big decrease in the marriage rate for 1932 and 1933 1 consider the greatest factors in tiie birth rate.”Dr. J. C. Geiger, Ban Francisco health director, said wholesale birth control methods” undoubtedly were responsible for the situation in the bay city, which he said was at the bottom of the list of birth rates by cities, with 10.9 per 1000.Even prolific Chinatown has taken to the birth control idea, he said. •The 1025. birth rate for the San Francisco Chinese population was given as 34.2 per 1000 of population, and the 1933 figure 35.8.The decline of marriages is not ascribed to the same reason in all quarters. At the recent session of the legislature, it was charged that the state's famous gin marriage law requiring a three-day waiting period before a license can be Issued, has driven hundreds of couples to more lenient Nevada and Arizona.The legislature finally passed a bill to repeal the law, but it has not yet been signed by Governor Frank F. Merriam, who has declined to indicate what he will do with it.liU'enKea Tscned11KAe?olFFaunficessthflecMeannovaadin*155n
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Jul 13, 1935
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