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wa s_almost double that of the nft tivr whitr-rrrnplr This 

 in fluence of city life and migration on the crime rate is 

 fu rther evident from the rates in New England w ith 630.2 

 commitments per 100,000 per native whites and 1,143.2 for 

 the same number of foreign born. Due to th e concentration 

 in citie s the commitment rate for both native and foreign 

 born in New England is more than double that in the 

 West~Nnrth Central States, whi le in both secti ons the rate 

 foi L-foreign born migrants is double that of _t he native 

 w hites. 



T his discussion indicates the e ffects of ^u rbanization and 

 the disturbance of the fa mily life on crimeT This is espe- 

 cia lly evirleiiL in the ngures on Negro commitmen ts since the 

 r ate in the North is about ZY 2 times the r ates i n the S outh. 



Th e strain of urb an life and migration is also evident 

 in the insanity rate a mong the Negroes (p p. 448-457). In 

 1910 the number of insane admitted to asylums per 100,000 

 of each racial class was: 59.7 among the whites of the 

 South Atlantic States and 44.6 among the Negroes. In the 

 Middle Atlantic States, on the other hand, the number was 

 105.9 for whites and 153.8 for Negroes. Although these 

 differences in rates reflect in part the differences in prac- 

 tice of admitting insane and in the facilities for caring for 

 them, still they also reflect the greater strain o f the urban 

 Hf» nf tli a Mrn-fo rm fog rm^a^ ffrfa jc further empha- 

 sized Jw the difference in urban and rural insanity rates in 

 thAJM^rth a *H South The Negro insane admitted to hos- 

 pitals in 1910 were as follows : Middle Atlantic States, 45.8 

 per 100,000 rural Negroes and 115.6 for the same number 

 of urban Negroes, South Atlantic States, 31.8 per 100,000 

 rural Negroes, and 86.2 per 100,000 urban Negroes. 



Social and Economic Classes. — Migration also plays its 

 part in forming and redistributing the social and economic 

 classes. The Negro population was in 1860 subdivided only 

 into farm laborers, artisans, domestics and free Negroes. 



