Louis I. Dublin
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 34
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Excerpt from Factors in American Mortality: A Study of Death Rates in the Race Stocks of New York State, 1910 In an address delivered before this section a year ago, entitled The Trend of American Vitality, I ventured to point out that the character of our immigration during the last twenty years was a factor in the increasing mortality of the higher age groups. To summarize the argument, it was shown that immigration played a very large part in the growth of population in the states com posing the registration area; that the foreign countries from which our immigrants come show uniformly a higher mortality rate than that prevailing in the United States; and that in the state of New York, in 1910, the mortality of the native born was, as a Whole, considerably lower than that of the foreign born. This was found to be true for both sexes, and especially at the adult and higher ages. Brief reference was finally made to the rates from the principal causes of death which apparently ac counted for these differences. The data then at hand were limited, but were nevertheless sufficient to show that the effect of the mortality of the foreign born on that of the total population was not altogether favorable, and that it was highly desirable to get more evidence on this subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.