154 Negro Migration 



is comparatively undisturbed, the number of married 

 women higher, the standard of living lower, and hence that 

 there is a larger proportion of married women and more 

 children per married woman. On the other hand, although 

 deaths from malaria and typhoid are probably more fre- 

 quent in the country, the Negro's chief foes, tuberculosis 

 and pneumonia, are more deadly in the city, and especially 

 in the colder climate of the North.. But the superior 

 intelligence of migrants and the fact that they are in the 

 more robust age group bring their general death rate in the 

 North down slightly below the rate in Southern cities. 



A bnormal Social Classes. — T he high proportion of crim- 

 inals, delinquents, a nd insane amonff Neg roes has also been 

 attribut e hy many writern tft racial traits. Here again, 

 however, are a grou p of p h enomena which may, to some 

 gvten^ ha flvpantnH frntn the H^Qf^rb^re nf any population 



by migration . The available data a jso ind icate th e influence 

 o£ migratio p on abnormal classes in the Negjo p opulation. 



The following figures are suggestive of the principal 

 factors underlying the situation. (439) 



Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents: Commitment Rates 

 per 100,000 of Each Race, 1910. 



White Negro 



The North 503.2 2,836.0 



The West 815.7 3,667.4 



The South 258.1 880.3 



T he low commitment rate for white and colored in the 

 South in due both to the predominance of the rural ele- 

 m ent and tcr the small proportion of migrants in the South- 

 ern populat ion. 



In the West North Central section, which approaches the 

 South in its proportion of rural inhabitants, the com- 

 mitment rate for native white people was only 296 per 



100.000, or only 38 more than the rate in the South. , Its 

 commitment rate for fqrejgja,.boni whites was, however, 



550.1. That is, among the migrants the commitment rate 



