158 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 Years in Urban and 
Rural Districts of Ohio 
No. Children per Married Woman | Cleveland Rural Counties 
All classéSiinn:ccv paso eae serene 
Native white, native parentage. ... 
Native white, foreign parentage... . 
Foreign white................... 
Pww ap 
Dok 
& tw w & 
srw fp 
Most of the foreign nationalities taken singly showed a higher 
fecundity in the rural counties, although exceptions occurred in 
the Bohemians, 1st generation of Hungarians, 1st 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 21 rural coun- 
