Abstract
The writer investigated the birth in Nishiura Village (Tagata-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture), and the results obtained as follows;
1. As in villages where people marry at an early age, this village has a large number of birth in average. As the food situation was bad before the War, the death rate was high.
2. The first child is born within 16 months after marriage, and the pregnancy rate seems to be high. Second and 3rd children leave thevillage, so increase in population is not marked.
3. The child bearing ability of women in this village is limited under 48 years of age.
4. During the Meiji period, due to venereal diseases which were prevalent in fishing villages, the birth rate was low. Since theTaisho days the birth became stabilized as the results of the betterment of the standard of living and of the cultural advancement of the villagers.
