The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
NEW YoRK,s rIrAn STATISTICS.
Great Increase in the Population of Foreign
Ancestry in the City.

The present estimated population OF New
York. Ave boroughs. is 100000. On July 1.
according to the estimate OF the Board Of
Health. it was 3.438 ,S99. and the increase since
that time has brought it close probably to
3.500.0O0.
During the last quarter officially reported
there were $4,000 deaths and $4,000 births in
the Greater New York. which is equivalent to
an increase in population by more than / 1000
births a month. irrespective of the increase OF
the population by immigration and otherwise.
and regardless of the fact that while practically
all deaths are reported q very considerable num-
Der OF births are not. The present death rate
Of the city is III per thousand inhabitants ;the
present birth rate is 21.7. showing a steady
ratio Of increase. The Board of Health figures
show, too. a steady increase in the proportion
OF births among ~foreign-born inhabitants. q
proportion which. II II reflects the facts, indi-
Gates that among the f~oreign-born residents
the population Is increasing very much moro
rapidly than among the native born population.
OF $4,000 births reported by the Board OF
Health during the last quarter. for which the
cent. were children either OF foreien-bdrn
Taking those having both parents foreign born.
aud therefore TO all intents and purposes
foreigners. though native born, Il appears that
Health report there were 3.2S0 children OF
Italian or Russian lineage born in New York
to 1920 or native parentage. The Russians
were more numerous than the Italians. there
being 1913 children of Russian ancestry to
1882 of Italian ancestry. The natives OF these
two countries have contributed most to the
Board of Health totals, and after them come.
though at some distance. not as might popu-
larly be supposed the children Of German
parentage or OF Irish parentage, but those
described as "others." These are. for the most
part. Hungarian and Houmanian, for IL Is to be
observed that they are most numerous 10 the
tatiops by wardsl in which Russians are many.
Following the Hungarians and RoumaniaDs
come first the Germans. then, but not much
after them. the natives Of Ireland. tho figures
being respectively 1.146 and 1.020. The Now
York wards in which births among Italians
predominant are shown by tho figures to be
the Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Eighth, Fourteenth.
and Fifteenth. The two wards in which. the
births of Russians and Poles exceed all Others
| are the Seventh and Tenth. In which they con-
stitute two-thirds OF the total number: The
| two Hungarian wards are the Eleventh and
Thirteenth, and the American wards are the
| proportion 70 the population the number Of
In tho Twenty-first ward. and OF German
| parsntage In the Twenty-third
II these figures be thoroughly accurate and
II the proportions eontinue-leas than one
| quarter Of the children horn in New York
county being OF native parents, and three
quarters OF foreign or partly foreign lineage-it
cannot be long before New York will become
indeed a veritable city Of foreigners II not, as
1T has sometimes been called. the foreign city.