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THE TREND OF THE RACE 



Island. The average number of children per married woman 

 under 45 who had been married 10-19 years is shown below: 



Number of Children per Married Woman of 15-45 Y^a^s in Urban and 



Rural Districts of Ohio 



Most of the foreign nationalities taken singly showed a higher 

 fecundity in the rural counties, although exceptions occurred in 

 the Bohemians, ist generation of Hungarians, ist generation of 

 the Irish, Poles and Russians. "In Cleveland," says the Report, 

 *'the average number of children (2.4) borne by the native white 

 women of native parentage is only slightly greater than half the 

 average (4.3) borne by the white women of foreign parentage. In 

 the selected rural counties the average number (3.4) borne by the 

 native white women is three-fourths as large as the average (4.5) 

 borne by the women of foreign parentage. The average for the 

 native white women of native parentage is larger in the rural 

 counties than in Cleveland. This is also true of the average for 

 the women of foreign parentage, but not in so marked a degree. 

 In fact, there are some foreign nationalities which appear to have 

 larger families in the city than in the country. But the difference 

 is not very marked and may be due to factors which are more or 

 less accidental and have no causal relation to urban or rural 

 influences." These facts are especially interesting when it is 

 recalled that the crude birth rate of Cleveland is very much 

 higher than it is in Ohio as a whole, and still higher than in rural 

 Ohio. 



In Minnesota a comparison of the number of children of native 

 born and foreign born women in Minneapolis and 2 1 rural coun- 



