BIRTHS

"BIRTHS" is a plural of: birth.

Date "BIRTHS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: BIRTHS

Crosswords: BIRTHS

Books

• Births 1656-1896, Selected Counties (Virginia Vital Records Collection, 2109) (reference)

• Great Toasts: From Births to Weddings to Retirement Parties ... and Everything in Between (reference)

• New York Births & Baptisms: Southeast Region, 1660-1916 (reference)

• Where to Write for Vital Records: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces (reference)

• You can have a baby : new hope for the childless, including the facts about test tube births & other new techniques (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Births Australia (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Government is every where antecedent to records, and letters seldom come in amongst a people till a long continuation of civil society has, by other more necessary arts, provided for their safety, ease, and plenty: and then they begin to look after the history of their founders, and search into their original, when they have outlived the memory of it: for it is with commonwealths as with particular persons, they are commonly ignorant of their own births and infancies: and if they know any thing of their original, they are beholden for it, to the accidental records that others have kept of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A phenomenon whence come overthrows and new births.

Inter their bodies as becomes their births.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Down syndrome occurs in 1 in 800 births. (references)

Rett syndrome affects one in every 10,000 to 15,000 live female births. (references)

Home births and early hospital discharge may contribute to missed cases. (references)

Business

Such births are unreported so that the parents can keep trying to conceive a boy. (references)

Official statistics may exclude many female births, especially the second or third in a family. (references)

Children's Fund (UNICEF), in 1995 China's mortality rate for children under 5 years of age was 47 per 1,000 live births. (references)

Children

Mexico

The mortality rate for children under 5 years of age was 33 per 1,000 live births, according to UNICEF figures. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Despite the Government's efforts to support health and welfare standards, the infant mortality rate is still very high at 16.61 deaths per 1,000 live births. (references)

Venezuela

A 1998 government regulation requires hospitals to register the births of all children, but a Government program of sending teams into poor neighborhoods to register minors has been discontinued. (references)

Economic History

Monaco

Number of births (1997): 713. (references)

South Africa

Health (official): Infant mortality rate--24.6 per live births. (references)

Bulgaria

Infant mortality rate (2001 est.)--14.65 deaths/1,000 live births. (references)

Human Rights

China

Most demographers estimate fertility at 2.0 to 2.3 births per woman (although the official figure is 1.8), indicating that the "one-child policy" is not applied uniformly. (references)

China

In many provinces, penalties for excess births in an area also can be levied against local officials and the mother's work unit, thus creating multiple sources of pressure. (references)

Argentina

In June Judge Servini de Cubra indicted naval doctor Jorge Luis Magnacco for attending clandestine births in the Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada during the military dictatorship. (references)

Minorities

Dominican Republic

As a result, they cannot declare their children's births at the civil registry and thereby establish Dominican citizenship for their offspring. (references)

Croatia

Without the recognition conferred by the law, citizens (almost exclusively ethnic Serbs) remained unable to resolve a wide range of problems including pensions, disability insurance, unemployment benefits, the recognition of births, deaths, and marriages, and even confirmation of time served in prison. (references)

Morocco

A number of Berber associations claimed that the Government refuses to register births for children with traditional Berber names, discourages the public display of the Berber language, limits the activities of Berber associations, and continues to Arabize the names of towns, villages, and geographic landmarks. (references)

Women

Yemen

Only approximately 22 percent of births are attended by trained health-care personnel. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Maternal mortality levels remain relatively high at 930 deaths per 100,000 live births. (references)

Indonesia

In Papua the maternal mortality rate is 1,025 deaths per 100,000 and in Maluku 796 deaths per 100,000 live births. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

However, because the Government does not keep records of births and marriages at the village level, it is very difficult for authorities to detect false claims of marriage or family ties. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "BIRTHS": births attended by health staff ♦ excess of births over deaths ♦ excess of deaths over births ♦ frequency of births ♦ register of births. Additional references.

Ending with "BIRTHS": still-births.

Danish

foedselstal (birth rate, frequency of births, natality), foedselsprocent (birth rate, frequency of births, natality), foedselshyppighed (birth rate, birthrate, frequency of births, natality), fertilitet (fertility). (various references)

Dutch

Besluit Burgerlijke Stand (Marriages and Deaths(Registration)Decree), nataliteit (birthrate), geboortencijfer (birth rate, frequency of births, natality), aantal geboorten (birthrate). (various references)

Finnish

väestörekisterikeskus (marriages and deaths, municipal registry of births), väestörekisteri (marriages and deaths, register of births), syntyneiden enemmyys (excess of births over deaths), siviilisäätyä koskevien tietojen poistaminen väestörekisteristä (destroying documentary evidence of civil status at the registry of births, marriages and deaths). (various references)

French

taux de natalité (birth rate), natalité (birth rate, birthrate, frequency of births), Décret relatif � l'Etat civil. (various references)

German

Geburten (nativities). (various references)

Greek 

γεννητικότητα (birthrate). (various references)

Italian

tasso di natalit� (birth rate, frequency of births, natality), quoziente di natalit� (birth rate, frequency of births, natality), natalit� (birth rate, natality). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

出�"�数 (number of live births), 出�"�数 (number of births). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅっしょうすう (number of live births), しゅっさ�"すう (number of births), しゅっせいすう (number of live births). (various references)

Pig Latin

irthsbay.(various references)

Portuguese

registo civil (marriages and deaths, municipal registry of births, register of births), número por ordem de nascimento (birth order, birth rank, order of births), excesso de natalidade sobre a mortalidade (excess of births over deaths), conservador do registo civil (marriages and deaths, Registrar of births), cancelamento do registo civil (destroying documentary evidence of civil status at the registry of births, marriages and deaths). (various references)

Spanish

registro civil (marriages and deaths, municipal registry of births), partos atendidos por personal sanitario (births attended by health staff), partos atendidos (births attended by health staff), orden de nacimiento (birth order, birth rank, order of births), exceso de la natalidad sobre la mortalidad (excess of births over deaths). (various references)

Swedish

födelser. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "BIRTHS": birthstone, birthstones. (additional references)

Words ending with "BIRTHS": afterbirths, childbirths, rebirths, stillbirths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BIRTHS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bairth, Bertus, bicth, Bilroth, birh, birrt, birthd, birthf, bith, bithc, briht, britis, budths, burth, Byrth, irth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: birth, brits, shirt.

-2 letters: bits, bris, brit, hist, hits, ribs, shri, sith, stir, thir, this.

-3 letters: bis, bit, his, hit, its, rib, sib, sir, sit, sri, tis.

-4 letters: bi, hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: brights, brutish.

+2 letters: birdshot, blithers, brattish, britches, herbiest, rebirths, turbiths.

+3 letters: birdbaths, birdshots, birthdays, bitterish, blighters, bothriums, brashiest, brightens, brightest, brushiest, brutishly, herbalist, hubristic, prohibits, thrombins, thuribles, tribrachs.

+4 letters: biorhythms, birthdates, birthmarks, birthrates, birthroots, birthstone, birthworts, bitcheries, botcheries, brachiates, branchiest, breathiest, breathings, brightness, bronchitis, brownshirt, butcheries, butterfish, dithyrambs, exhibitors, eyebrights, herbalists, hibernates, inbreathes, inhabiters, inhibitors, labyrinths, paintbrush, reinhabits, shrubbiest, stillbirth, superbitch, terebinths, thrombosis, trihybrids.