MALTHUSIANISM IN ENGLAND.

The Journal has in times past noted the decrease in the birth-rate in different civilized countries, as a tendency of modern civilization that is worthy of careful attention by sociologists and medical men generally. The condition of affairs in France has been notorious, but the Teutonic peoples of Europe have been generally considered as less inclined toward a static or decreasing population. The latest report of the Registrar-General of England, however, gives figures that would indicate that the national disease, if such it may be called, has infected Great Britain also, as shown in a declining marriage-rate, with a corresponding decrease in the birth-rate, which Mr. Henry May, in an article in Public Health, estimates at 15 to 18 per cent. The marriage-rate has been considered in times past an index of prosperity, but England has not been so particularly unprosperous of late years as to account for the decrease