The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-12
FOREIGNERS IN CONN RCfECUT.
They Are Tul1inr the Places of the
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NEW HAVEN. Conn. April 12--The an
nual report of the vital statistics de
partnent of the State Board of Health,
just made public. shows a most signifl-
cant change that is coming about IN the
character Of the population Of Connect
cut The original Yankees are suffer
ing at tie hands of the foreign element
1t appears from the figures given, and are
being slowly but steadily pushed TO the
wall by them In = generation, If the
present change keeps on. Connecticut will
be rePeoPIed with race alien to the soil,
and the old Connecticut families will have
nearly disa ppeared.
At the present time the death rate
among the native population of the state
is far ahead of the birth rate, while the
contrary IS true of the foreigners Much
the same thing exists in varying degree
in other States of New England, though
in few States have the records been kept
with such painstaking and fidelity as IN
Connecticut
This State was originally peopled by
English and Dutch immigrants, who eth
er came over directly or moved here after
settling in adjoining States In the early
twenties the first Irish immigrants ap-
peared. and just previous to the civil
war there was a marked immigration Of
Germans Later came the Italians, and
within a few years the Norwegians, Poles
and Russians. The original stock has
grown slowly, while this new leayen in
the loaf is Of a surprising and almo=t ter
rifying fecundity. What the result viii
be is a matter for the statisticians to
settle
Statisticians in Connecticut state that it
is a mathematicaHy demonstrabIe fact
that unless the operating causes are COM
bated the American of English and Scotch
or Welsh stock. and. later. the American
of German and Irish stock. viii disappear
from the population and will be replaced
by the children of Poles, Hungar ians,
Russian Jews. and Italians who are now
swarming into the State III droyes. IN
France there IS much agitation because
the population remains stationary. In
this State affairs are even worse. The
decrease in the birth rate Is, OF course
most marked IN the small country towns,
whence the young blood has moved to
the cities, and where comparative poverty
nccessitates small families among the in
Connecticut are peopted still almost eX-
cluSiVeIy by native Connecticut blood and
here the figures are most convincing In
forty-one towns Of the State the deIthS
exceeded the, births, with an aggregate
loss for the year Of 20 IN seven towns
the two were equal The excess OF che
death rate WIS shown most in MiddleSex
and Fairfield counties. the former having
a decrease of Al and the latter of g.. Can
terbury lost Is, Trumbull Is. Kent i, and
other towns from 10 To apiece.
In the three large cities the diSprSpor-
ton Of deaths to births Of Americans and
Of foreigners is even more noticeable. In
New Haven the deaths of american born
were LII last year and the births ,O32
Of foreigners the deaths Were SOL and
births l.GJ4. That is to say the deaths
were about = TO of American born
against foreign born and the births = to
3 If the deaths of Americans are about
eigners and their biGIhs only 10 it viii
not take long to entirely change the char
acter Of the population
In the other large centres precisely the
same conditions exist In Hartford. I,Gsi
Americans died to Isl foreigners, while 66l
Americans we're born 20 $50 foreigners.
The births were / 70 and the deaths 8
10 = j summary cOFerlLg the cities shows
that in Waterbury, New Haven Hartford,
Aeriden, Norwich, New London. and
Bridgeport the deaths Of American born
were 42ZI TO 1861 fOTeigu-bOrn deaths. and
the births Of American born were 5,393 to
1924 foreign. In the entire State there
were S,2y9 births Of American parents and
S2l9 foreign, and there were less deaths
of American born and but 36IS foreign.
These. figures are the more Interesting
when they are taken ia connection with
the statistics Of marriages In the last
year there were 10 marriages both
parties to which We're American born and
1877 marriages Of foreigners Yet The
foreigners viii have in the next few
years by far the greater number of chill
dren. If past statistics hold good At the
same time tt3e percentages OF parenttige
are changing The percentage Of American
parentaEe mas fallen from - per cent in
1850 10 % f-cr cent IN 1893 The percent
age Of mixed parentage remains con-
slant at about -. The natiOLa.5ty of par
ents IN the State follows from the report:
American. 6,z99: irish, LSi8; Italian.
l-5Z; German, 500 Swedish SO: Russian
936; Canadian. $50; EngH- SIS; Aus
trian. 339; Hungarian, 50; Polish. Z}S;
Scotch. IS: French, 80; Swiss, 26. Danish