28 MAY 1932, Page 16

MIGRATION AND THE BIRTH RATE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sm—You usefully suggest that England would be better off with a population a million or so less, and you therefore rightly demur to the opinion expressed in the just-published report on migration that, because of our low birth rate, large-scale emigration would be disadvantageous. The further suggestion might well be made that the lower the birth rate falls the greater will be our capacity to promote a better distribution of the population inasmuch as we should be more able to finance a really attractive scheme of migration. For example, a life pension might be given to any poor couple who would take their young children to one of the Dominions.—I sin, Sir, &c.,