The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-17
BIG DECLINE IlNEBIf17'H s,1i
RATE IN UNITED STATES
Bulletin Issued By Census Bureau Does not
Attempt to Assign Causes. comparisons s. y
Between North and South.

/ and 1900 not single state Or the NORM
! 1Ailantic division took part III seven othe4r
States, n.so there was no decrease. In
only six states, Maryland Michigan, Ohio
IillliiiIt,ois Kentucky and indiana, aid 7sths
proportion dccrease In each Of five do
cndes; ana III only Delaware, District Of
Columbia, wisconsin,, Minnesota, Iowa,
Oregon and Colorado did It follow tho |
tendency for the country as i; n whole;
that Is Increase from 500 TO 1S60.and de-
crease In tho four succeeding decades.
III 1900 for the United States as n
whole, the proportion Of children was only
two thirds rs great In cities us IN the
country districts. In tho North A lantlc
division. however, t was almost MS great
In the cites as In tho country. IN the
southern divisions It Is hardly more than
5half as large In the cities as IN the coul-S
try while in the far West tho difference
IA IgIntcrirLd>nto In amount. This, !" It ls
explained Us probably duo In large
measure to the fact that the Immigrant
sropulation who have been swurning into
Tho northern cities Of recent years, es-
,,ucis lly into the cities Of the North At
ianttc States have been multiplying by
numerous births with much rapidly,
while tho corresponding laborlng class
which has in,migrnted to. southern cities
ON the surrounding country y districts
has not been thus luCt GttdliAAs
Comparison.
E COMPARISON Is nadc between the pro.
portion II children. born Of native mothers
S,n / 600 native women OF bearing
ago and the proportion OF children born
OF foreign born mothers to 900 foreign;
born women OF collaborating age. ! n lsoo,
the former proportion was 62; the latter,
10; the difference Indicating the greater
;ccundity Of foreign- born women St me me
bulletin continues: "The comparison also
indicates that the total decreases IN fe--
cundity OF white women between 1890
and 1900 was the result Of a decrease
for native white women partly offset by
an Increase for forcign-born white wo-
men. 5sf
I'm the Atlantic divisions, however,
there was q slight increase in the &pro-
portion Of children born to native white
mothers, and in the South Central dvi-
sion, there was but a slight decrease. The
decrease for the whole country. therefore,
was the result very largely Of the great
decrease in the North Central and West
crn divisions. 81 i. !,
s"The decrease In the proportion OF chill
dren BON to native white women WAS
confined chiefly to cities Tx ,S
.rhe proportion OF negro children ="
negro women. fifteen to forty-nine years
Of age was largest IN 1880 and smallest
in 1900 There has been uniformly a
larger proportion of negro children child zen than
Of whic children.
That difference more than doubled ae.
tween 1860 and 1880. but in 1900 It was
less than half what It was in 1880. and
less than at any other census, except
1860. Though the negroes have a large pro-
portion OF children, than the whites II
has been noticed, that the whites OF the
south. have larger proportion than the
whites in other sections OF the country.