Jews in Montreal showed the lowest birth rate in 1966 compared with the non-Jewish population of the city. At the same time they showed the highest death rate, it was learned today from data on the Jewish community of Montreal for the year 1964 made public by the Canadian Jewish Congress. The data was compiled by Louis Rosenberg, CJC research director.
According to the report, the birth rate of the Jewish population in the city of Montreal during 1964 was 14.3 per thousand as compared with 21.2 per thousand among the population of French origin, and 16.3 per thousand among those of Anglo-Celtic origin.
The death rate among the Jewish population was 13 per thousand as compared with 7.6 per thousand among the population of French origin and 11.6 per thousand among those of Anglo-Celtic origin, and the excess of births over deaths was 1.3 per thousand among Jews in Montreal, as compared with 13.6 per thousand among those of French origin and 4.7 per thousand among those of Anglo-Celtic origin, and 23.3 per thousand among all others not of French, Anglo-Celtic or Jewish origin.
The infant mortality rate among Jews in the city of Montreal in 1964 was one per thousand live births, as compared with 23 per thousand live births among the population of French origin, 18.2 per thousand among those of Anglo-Celtic origin and 12.1 per thousand among all other ethnic groups.
Montreal is the only city on the American continent or in the British Commonwealth for which annual official statistics of Jewish births and deaths are available.
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