Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-30

The annual repuzs ,u.c issued by the burean Of v4ta1 statistics for Connecti- 1908, reveals with striking cIearness the extent to which this state has be- come foreign community. Study of the tabetlations concerndnE births commonwea1th Is being overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the fnvad- ing raees from over sea
 In it's Connecticut rounds the stork merical1y the American element of the population is substantially stationary, but the foreign ratio expands steadily.
 Decline of American Births.
 Of the 26, 1894 births which took place in the state in 1908s the number of cases in which both parents were for efgn born foots up 1T, ,130, establishing foreign births during the last decade has increased from Ar to 52.9. Mean wa1ile the ratio of births when both parents were native born has under gone an irregular decline. While in 1898 the births from American parents represented 40.4 per cent. of the total number of births, those for 1908 con- stituted only 34.4 per cent. of the whole body of birth returns.
 In other words, the percentage of purely American births in Connecticut suffered a shrinkage of 6 per cent during the ten year period, while the Ietdio or p0re4y I0EedSn D1Tt4S mounted 11-2 per cent. The percentage of births when one parent is returned foreign born was 12.3 in 1908, while in 1.2 per cent. of the cases the nationality of the fathers and mothers WAS not given
 New Haven county immigrants con- tinued to be the most aggressive op- ponenfs of race suicide, for 6o6 per cent. of the contributions to the infant year are credited to foreign born fa- thers and mothers. In Hartford coun- ty, which bristles with manufacturing communities, 54.9 per cent. of the par ents were born under alien flags. Mid d1esex county, in which 51-7 per cent of the parents were foreign born stood third, while in Fairfield county, in which the great factory town of Bridgeport and such hating centers as Danbury, Bethel and the two Nor walks are located, the percentage of foreign births ran up to sos per cent. In Windham county, where plough and fail are important instruments of live lihood, the ratio of foreign born par ents dropped to the lowest point, the percentage being S4.4.
 Distribution by Races.
 Impressive is the supremacy which immigrant Italians have established in the birth statistics. Of the 14.130 Con- necticut born children of foreign born parents in 1908. 4,421 were of Italian origin. During the decade between
 
 births nearly quadrupled Russian born parents, the bulk of them being Jews. contributed 364 units to the census of Connecticut during 1908, while the rec ord for the year 1899 was only 92s. The dwindling part which Irish i'm migrants are playing in the birth sta tistics of the commonwealth is notable In 1899 the births with Irish parentage numbered 1,S18 and exceeded those of any other foreign nationality, but in 1908 the number had ehrunk to 1,267 and Irish births were third on the list. For many years the immigrants from Ireland poured into Connecticut in large numbers and exercised a great influence on the character of the pop ulation of the state, but in the last decade there has been a marked falling off.
 The Latin contribution to the birth tables of the state during 1908 was greater than the total number of births in the four counties Of Windham, Litchfe1d, Middlesex and Holland com btned. Slightly over 50 per cent. of the births of Italian born parents took place in New Haven county, while 2,2o2 Italian births during 1908 are credited to New Haven county. Hartford county Is a poor second with total of 324, and Fairfield county next with