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Excess of Deaths over Births in Rumania Shown

February 21, 1936
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The Bukowina Volkszeitung publishes a striking statistical survey by Dr. Alexander Manuelescu on the dwindling of the Jewish population in Bucovina.

In 1934 the number of deaths among the Jewish population of Bucovina exceeded births by 223. Up to September 1935, the Rumanian population in the province increased by 3,366, the Ukrainian by 718 and the German by 375, and that of other nationalities by 234, while the Jewish population actually decreased by 272, a proof, Dr. Manulescu believes, of the large percentage of deaths among the Jews.

Dr. Manulescu further claims that in Bessarabia and Old Rumania the proportion of deaths among Jews exceeds births, and he comes to the conclusion that these figures prove that the economic position of the Jews in Roumania is exceedingly bad.

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