The birthrate of Palestine has shown a drop of 2.83 per cent for 1929 as compared with 1928 while the death rate for 1929 has fallen 2.51 in 1929 as compared with 1928, according to the annual report of the Palestine department of health for 1929 made public today. The figures show that the birthrate in 1929 was 51.15 per thousand as compared with 53.98 per thousand in 1928. The death rate figures are 26.5 per thousand for 1929 as compared with 29.01 for 1928.
The health department’s report shows that its medical service personnel includes 33 Arabs, 24 Englishmen, 6 Jews and 7 Armenians and Greeks. The report announces that the health department has applied to the Colonial Development Fund for a loan for sanitary work, especially water supply and sewerage in Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa.
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