Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-30
stals Population Rapidly Changes
Native Born are Giving Way Foreisn-Birth Rate
 Shovs t Materially Statistics from State Report

a record of z52. The Latin immigrants
 have little use for Windham county,
 holds in the course of the twelve
 months.
 The sIav Eisment-
 The Slav and allied races are making
 great and growing additions to the
 foreign population Of fhe state- The
 number of births from Polish parents bounded up from POS in 1899 to 804 in
 1908; those from Hungarian parents
 from S37 to 6S2 and those from Aus
 trian parents from 339 to 1,158. These
 races are. beginning to figure promi-
 nently on the payrollS Of COnuect1cuL
 factories and they are also raising
 crops and families on worn out farms
 on which Yankees find 1t difncult to
 The Hungarians are largely assem-
 b1ed in Fairfield county and 75 per
 cent of the Hungarian births of the
 state during 1908 took place in that
 corner of the commonwealth Fairfield
 county also attracts more Austrians
 than any other, although large mum :
 bers of them settle in Hartford and
 New Haven counties
 Of the 2.364 children born of Russian
 parents in Connecticut during 1908. nearly 1000 uttered their first cries in
 New Haven county, and 697 of them
 are credited to Hartford county. Rus sian immigrants turn up their noses at Windiham county, and only Is Russian births occurred in that northeastern county in 1S0S-
 Some Waning Figures. Germany joins Ireland in showing a waning emigration to Connecticut In 1899 the births from German parents amounted to 961 and was exceeded by no oversea races except the Irish and the Italians, but in 1908 the figure had dipped to ell, most of those being con- filed to Hartford and Litchdeld coun- ties.
 The Canadian element, which con- stitutes a large proportion Of the op- eratfves in the textile industries in the closing tendencies toward contraction. The number of birth certificates re- turned by Canadian born parents sag ged from S30 in 1899 to 611 in 1908. More than a third of the 611 are cred ited to Windham county, where cotton mill villages are numerous. Naturally the infusion of fresh for eign blood into Connecticut is most In the case of only 21 per cent of the l births in the city of Ansonia during | 1908 were both parents American born; | in Bridgeport only 25 per cent. in Der by only Is per cent, in Hartford only | 34 per cent, in Manchester only 31 per cent, in Meriden only 27 per cent, in | Midd1etown only 31 per cent, in New | Britain only 22 per cent, in New Ha- ven only 25 per cent, in Norwich only l 31 per cent, in Stamford only A per
 
 cent Obviously in the fundamental l clements of their population these cit l ies are becoming foreign comm unities
 North stoninston Among the Declining Towns.
 | In 26 towns the deaths exceeded the births in 1908. These are towns in which the native stock is still domi- nant and in which the infusion of l alien blood is the smallest.
 l In the rural town of Andover, for example, three birth certificates were filed during the year. All the births were of American parentags and all l the decedents were American born. O1 | the 16 births which occurred in the farming town of North Stonington, in New London county, all were from
 Yankee born fathers and mothers while 22 of the 25 decedents were na- tive Americans. In North BranfOrd to cite one more illustration, eight of the Il babies born during the year were of purely American parentage and r of the 19 persons who died were of native stock.
 1 The extent of the injection of inn ported blood and the shifting propor- tions Of new racial elements are creat- | ing marked changes in the population ! and citizenship of Connecticut.