The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-16
BIRTHS TO FOREIGN BORN PARENTS DOUBLE
 BIRTHS TO NATIVES
Race Suicide Cannot be Charged to Connecticut Although in 26 Towns More Die Than Are BoTl--DiVOTCe Decreases Relative to Population March is Favor Month to be Born in, June to Wed in and January
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In a little cloth bound, black GOV cred volume, the state of Connecticut has issued the sixty-first registration report. book, to one who knows how to interpret it's columns of marshall ed figures, more intensely interesting than any work of fiction.
 For this little book. prepared by the Bureau of Vital Statistics, holds the issues of life, marriage, divorce and death. firmly in it's embrace.
 The changing quality of the popu- lation. the terrible facts of infant mortality, the diseases that will catch yous if you don't watch out, are found between the covers of the book.
 Some of these facts the Farmer ing them concisely as possible.
 One may be sure of this. That race suicide is not the rule in the Commonwealth. although the State does contain 26 towns in which deaths exceed births, for the number of persons born per 1000 of popula- ton has increased from 20 in 1s4s to 25-7 in 19e84
 But so has the quality of the popu- lat1on changed, with respect to na- tIvity. Connecticut is not only no longer Puritan in it's people, and mainly inha bited by the descendants of the men who came with Thomas growing ever and ever the strong anvil upon which a mass of varied European people are being welded in- to one whole.
 How strongly is this allegation sus- tained by this simple group of figures.
 The children of parents, not born in the United States, who came into being in this state in 1908. numbered 17,434. And this was double the number of those born of American parents, s,924 babes.
 was increased by 26,694 births. And this exceeded greatly the number of deaths, which were but 16,000.
 But during the same period there were ushered out 3,251 little ones less than a year old and 1,038. less than five years old. This is the enormous civilization, and to the fact that many families live in poor environment and amidst undesirable surroundings.
 Between infant mortality and the wage scale there is an intimate con- Hection.
 AS between those of American na- is not impartial, for the registration shows 11,363, of the former, and A. Ss3 of the latter
 But no reader Of the Farmer must therefore jump hastily to the con- clusion that the American born citi- zen is weakling, and that he is dy- ing faster than the foreign born. American born citizens have, as group attained better material condi- lions the contrary is true. The great
 
 years old. But few arrive as infants, and, as we have seen, infant nor tality is large portion of all dea ths. Moreover immigrants arrive, usually, l somewhere between the ages of 20 1 and 50, which is the period when ! relatively few deaths occur. Again, as is always expected, by 1 those who follow the statistics of 1 mortality, just as life is kind to the 1 girl babies. causing more of them to | be born, so death spares the women | longer than it does the men. The proportion of boys born to | girls was 1O5.2 for each 100.
 This excess of girls over boys ap- pears to hold good in most parts of | the world, and is thought to be a 1 wise provision of nature to hold even | the balance of the sexes, for in each year, as rule, more men die thanj women. And Connecticut during the registration was no exception, for of The 16,0G0 deaths S,4S5 were males md but 7,513 were females.
 There are 169 towns in the state. Tn 26 of these towns the deaths ex- oeeded the births, and the total loss n population to such towns from his cause was 131. Five of these owns are in Fairfield County: New Fairfield, Newtown, Sherman. Trun- 5u1I and Weston
 Seven are in Litchfeid County 3arkhamsted, Bridgewater Cole brook. Cornwall, Morris Washington