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population. Tables 6a, 6b, and 6c show these figures compared 

 with corresponding figures for Indiana and the United States, 

 except that in Table 6a the age group for Indiana and the United 

 States is 5 to 14 years instead of 6 to 14. In comparison with 

 figures for Indiana and the United States the Gary population 

 shows an abnormally low proportion of persons 6 to 14 years of 

 age, and 6 to 20 years of age, but an unduly large proportion of 

 males 21 years of age and over; facts due both to the large number 

 of immigrants, among whom the proportion of very young persons 

 is normally low and the proportion of males above the age of 

 16 is normally high, and also to the newness of the city, a con- 

 dition which would noimally attract an unusually large number 

 of men in the most productive years of life. 



Tables 7a and 7b show the proportions in the age groups 

 6 to 14 years, and males 21 years of age and over according to 

 color and nativity in Gary, in Indiana, and in the United States. 



7a. PROPORTIONS OF AGE GROUP 6 TO 14 YEARS BY COLOR AND 

 NATIVITY IN GARY, IN INDIANA, AND IN THE UNITED 

 STATES IN 1910 2 2 





Gary 



Indiana 



United 





Per Cent 



Per Cent 



States 









Per Cent 



Native born white of native parentage . . 



34.15 



86.6 



59.3 



Native b r "white of foreign or mi^ed 











45.0 



10.2 



24.1 





Id. 2 



1.0 



3.5 





1.2 



1.9 



12.7 



Other 





0.3 



0.4 







7b. PROPORTION OF MALES 21 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER BY 

 COLOR AND NATIVITY IN GARY, IN INDIANA, AND 

 IN THE UNITED STATES 









United 





Gary 



Indi na 



S a ps 





Per Cent 



Per Cent 



Per Cent 





- 22.4 



72.5 



49.6 



Native born of foreign or mixed par- 











9.4 



14.2 



17.4 





65.7 



10.8 



22.6 





2.3 



2.5 



9.5 



Other 



0.2 





0.9 









22U.S. Census, 1910, Vol. I, pp. 298, 1033; Vol. II, pp. 542, 544, 568. 



