During 1923 there were:
Births 758,386
Deaths 444,869
Increase in population 313,517 Despite this the birth rate was 19.7 per mille, the lowest figure on record for a normal year; the death rate was also lower at 11.6 per mille. The year as a whole was said to be the healthiest on record.
Viscount Knebworth, Oxford, son of the Earl of Lytton, knocked out his London University opponent in a welterweight competition. This was taken to prove that the young peerage is not entirely useless.
An earthquake in England? Yes, in
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. No damage...
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