The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-05-31

n very radical change in the population Of
Tho and Of the Turitans.
hcnumbcrs OF births in Massachusetts in
1874 were: American, 1868; foreign. p .,O7;
American father and foreign mother, 1854 /.
foreign father and American mother. 3,3ji.
III 1875 the numbers wcrc about the same.
The terms American and foreign indicate
here simply the birthplace of the parents
not their race or descent. As n matter Of
fact, there Is but little intcrmixing in mar
riagc between the purely American and for
cign element. The mixed marriages may,
therefore, be safely classed with the foreign.
Do this, and the figures for 1875 arc Amcri-
can, 1884; foreign 2G1is When we also bear
in mind that Of those put down az American
considerable share are the offspring ~ per-
sons born In tho United States, but whose
parents were born abroad, we must mako
the foreign births still more In Rhode
Island, where the vital statistics are OBJ
tanned with great care and accuracy, IL Is
discovered that tho birth rate for twenty
years has steadily decreased among the
Americans, hut increased with the foreigners,
SO that in 1875 the foreigners had SO per cent.
of the births of the State In Providence the
S,22l married women born In the United
States, and between fifteen and fOrty-vc
years of age, had 1852 children in the years
1874 IS, while the 1919 married women OF the
same ages born in foreign countries. had
2,ol2 children in the same time. That Is, the
foreign married women. though 1892 less in
number, had $50 moro children. II has been
asserted 10y some writer's that if the foreign
81 t.ft t..
among their infants Is so much greater than
that among the American born M TO neu-
trnlize the Increase. Yet we find by the
Providence tables that tho percentage Of
mortality among the former has steadily
declined within twenty years, So that in
1875 IL was 1896 foreign to a2OG American,
while the percentage of births Is largely in
favor Of the foreigners
From the new census ~ Mas sachusetts.
that Of 1915 we get many interesting facts
touching this question The compiler thus
summarizes some Of them:
The total nunher Of women in hi. STATE who are or
NV IT, u 80. i q /, 81. ' n,d t nanu'f ,,' nave
W yer cent. are nanvv born motcrs. and li'-t or
DO proportion stand. 80 NAIVE eni 2i Ter cont tor
80. c m"ih,rs nae ~ yer G, nj thli'e ami - lcr
born icmaies, I"sii. or au-- Ter cent have become
horn females 80 or 81 p,r cont. nave iecdrn.
nNthot. o tho $3.50 married won, iu %, state hsy
PROPORTION h,"nfed iocach class there so reason,
g. l','c tht ~ Jar Vie lAr-'r uaori, wUui ir uuud
% .nc purely An' r.an ~ a,'r'.e nuin,r Of hrtn.
iil.'' 'NS' N"hiaan' 80, An-lsh, 40, Ahd u'fmah
Hut an these arurc. from the are
., ar, Ga .,i anon nirth.l.e, AMI ,,t a., r,r.,aee
an ,..ai .g'r. D. .a gum o., lni.i state, COULD
inn.. if's Ne H. cent wdyr q, es" Am,r,an aud
900 N' nsu, incN f'rfc.'h i, iruuun'-.o t t1v Nny
hrtls go iA, class laryef tisu. aci ally ass
Tho fact g. tho birth rute 81 New England
people has lc.n steadily declining for "a hum
dlod years and more. During y years, up
to 1875 the decrease in the American has
been over % per cent. and the increase in
the foreign nearly u per cent, while the
mixed. which Is mostly foreiyn has increased
over - per cent. II the foreign element
could o. eliminated from the American and
added - 'ho foreign il would show birth
raf' Ia this class fully twice a. largo as the
strictly American. Or. ALLEN thus COM
iarc- th h.rlh ratio of Ma.-acAu-ctts with
tat of LurI can coUn'lic-:
i.'.r.ti f,-.... % r
g.. ''- 100 'st easy "i't4 N-t..-iItt. lar ..
| .u ri ia. 70. f.,i0sf, .',,i, ana.h i'5l,i
! d, 10 rate. mat ue Am'n..9 ,e,e au-' Co., ,or'' g.
" 81 iue irna~' OF loin"uon hefr i- Very ,laah
c.'.. ntuo'.. ogut.ni r''r,n, 3. Pc ..oN. Nl-fni
li o...t H'.-.A SECS U.'n ,,D-.'n.s '-.i'.s.ae iD.
1he,auaez = tli- decline, SYNONYMOUS and
So iu.i OF srssc-'ion, Dr ALL-s finds 10