venience, actually combines the mother-tongue and nativity 

 classification. Our first group includes the native-born of 

 native parentage. Contrasted with this first group are the 

 native and foreign born of foreign parentage. This second 

 group has been further subdivided into-* a number of race 

 stocks as far as was possible. Under the classification "Jews" 

 are included all native and foreign bora children of foreign 

 parentage whose mother-tongue was given as Yiddish. In like 

 manner, "Italians" includes those whose fathers were born 

 in Italy and whose mother-tongue was Italian. The desig- 

 nation "English, Scotch and Irish" covers children whose 

 fathers were born in the British Isles and whose mother-tongue 

 was given as either English or Scotch. "Germans" includes 

 those whose fathers were born in Germany or Austria and 

 whose mother-tongue was given as German. "Slavs" are 

 those whose mother-tongue is given as Russian, Polish or 

 Slavic. The last group, "Other Nationalities", includes all 

 the residual cases. 



The following table indicates the distribution of the boys 

 and girls by nationality: 



TABLE 11 



Number and Percentage of Boys and Girls, Classified 

 by Nationality or Race Stock 





The Jews compose the largest group with 36.6% of the total 

 for both sexes. Since this race group constitutes at best only 

 20% of the population of New York City, it is evident that 

 this race contributes not far from twice its quota to the boys 



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