Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-05-02
S,,.l1 STATISTICS on BABIES
FOREIGNERS BIRTH RATE is
HIGHEST.
Polish Women In America Have laro.
est Families, Averaging One
Berth Every 2 or 8 Years.

Washington, April 25.-From infor'
nation collected by the census bureau.
on the population schedules of the
twelfth United States census in 1900,
DR.. J. A. Hill. chief statistician of the
division of revision and results of the
census bureau, has prepared for the
immigration commission report on
the fecundity of women in America, in
Q published abstract Of which the con.
illusions are drawn that fecundity is
much greater among the married
white women Of foreign parentage
than among the married native Amer
lean women Of native parentage; that
It is usually greater in the first gener-
alton Of foreign stock than in the sec
ond; and that it is on the whole great
err in rural districts than in cities. It
Is shown. also, that high percentage
of childlessness prevails among mar.
ried negro women in northern cities.
Foreign Women Lead.
The native white married women OF
native parentage, in the districts from
which the returns were taken, had
born in the aggregate one child every
So years, while the women of foreign
parentage had borne one every 80
years.
The first generation Of the white of
foreign parentage. representing the
Immigrant women, had one child every
three years, and the second genera
ton had one every SO years. For each
foreign nationality the number of
years married per child borne is less
In the first generation than in the
second with very few exceptions.
Comparing the different nationalities,
the fecundity Is shown to be greatest
in the first generation Of Polish wo-
men who had on the average one child
every 2.3 years; also, that the fecundi-
ty 10 least in the second generation of
English women, who had on the Az
srage one child every five years.
Among American white women Of
native parentage who had been mar.
ried from ten to twenty years. the
average number of children in Cleve-
land and in Minneapolis is exactly the
same, a., and hardly differs from the
average in Rhode Island, 2.5.> The
average in those areas is lower by 1,
or nearly 1, than it Is in rural Ohio
and in rural Minnesota where it is 3.4.
In other words, in the rural districts
of Ohio and Minnesota the women of
native American parentage who were
in the second decade Of their married
life had borne on the average l more
in the cities of Cleveland and Mime
apolis or in the state Of Rhode Island.
which is largely urban.
As regards the women Of foreign
parentage the difference between an
urban and a rural environment is not
usually so marked, nor Is it uniform.
Az q rule the average number Of chill
dren in each nationality is highest in
rural Minnesota and lowest In Mime
apolis or Cleveland or else in Rhode
Island. But there are some excep-
lions. For the first generation Of Can.
adian English the average number OF
children is as great in Rhode Island as
It is in rural Minnesota. For the first
generation of Bohemians it is as great
In Minneapolis as it is in rural Mime
sofa.
Childlessness among negro women
In the north is one Of the notable
facts brought out in the returns. In
Minneapolis 1911 per cent of the negro