A Social Study of the Russian German 59 
not show any great difference in either the crude death rate or the 
proportion of total deaths in the city, they do show great differ- 
ences in the number of deaths according to age distribution. It 
is to be assumed that where there is a large proportion of chil- 
dren or of old people, the expectancy of death will be greater 
than where the middle age groups constitute the bulk of the 
population. In so far, however, as infant mortality, 7. e., the 
death of children under one year of age, or child mortality, 7. e., 
the death of children from one to four years inclusive, occur from 
preventable causes, the community cannot find much comfort in 
that general rule. 
The following table shows the age distribution of the two 
populations and the proportion of deaths according to those ages: 
TABLE XI. DEATHS AMONG RUSSIAN GERMANS AND IN THE CITY AT 
Larce, AccorpDING To AGE DISTRIBUTION 
dix 
x) a ey Percentage Russian 6 5,9| Percentage Lincoln | 
tos -| German Deaths | Bo Se eaths | & 
sO 8 3 ge 4 teearcs 
Age Groups fel ao ) Ba | | o 
5.6 Zi Sees 2, 
oae Sia Ree = 
aoe Igi2 | 1913 | 1914 A457" | ror2 | 1913 | 1914 
| 
OF WEAIBo 5 cot 4.0 | 37.2 | 45.1 | 61.1} 47.8 BA || QUO || BAO)|) BB.0|| QBBwAl 
Ta, WERSc 4c654 7/(0) |p BLD) || BBolt || BBO | BAO) | Fad |] G78 beak) PO Ges 
RIK) WEBNS 6 6 boc 280 || OO) 40) Bod) uL@ || Bas SeSa lee 5c OR 5251 O20 
2O—AQ) VeaLse ee B58} |) et || WAG | FO) Bs || GOK) SHS |) BAO | Bice || SBS 
Over 50 years ..... FAD! LALO) |) W274 SoS || UO || U5 |) BS | BOC) 403 |) AG2 
Se eased Goes | 
100.0 !100.0 |I00.0 |100.0 |100.0 |100.0 |I00.0 |100.0 |100.0 |100.0 
It is unfortunate that the percentages relating to Lincoln cannot 
be reckoned as to its inhabitants excluding Russian Germans, but 
the United States census does not furnish the necessary basis. 
The table shows that, in proportion to the total number of deaths, 
the largest percentage among the Russian Germans occurs in the 
lower age groups; and for the city at large, in the upper age 
groups.*® For example among the former, the percentage of 
Cf. Davis, “The Relation of the Foreign Population to the Mortality 
Rates of Boston,” in Medical Problems of Immigration, 51. 
36 The figures upon which these percentages are based include the still 
births. 
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