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TABLE 15.-Women under 45 years of age married ten to nineteen years, classified by parentage and nativity: Total number tabulated, average number of children borne, average number of years married, and average number of years married per child borne-Continued.

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The following table classifies the married women in Cleveland and the rural Ohio counties, by color, parentage, and nationality:

TABLE 10.-Women under 45 years of age married more than one year, classified by parentage: Number tabulated.

OHIO: CLEVELAND AND 48 RURAL COUNTIES. 1900.

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In this table, as in all the tabulations for Ohio, a more extended classification by nationality is made than in Rhode Island. The Ohio tables distinguish the following nationalities not separately classified in the Rhode Island tabulations: Austrian, Bohemian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Swiss, and Welsh. The entry "Other foreign" is made up of French Canadians, Danes, and Norwegians, the number of whom residing in Cleveland and the selected counties was too small to make separate tabulation worth while.

The white women of foreign parentage shown in the foregoing table are subdivided in the next table into two groups as regards birthplace, those born in the United States and those born in foreign countries. The latter are designated throughout as the first generation, the former as the second generation. As in the case of Rhode Island, the term nationality is here used with reference to the birthplace of both parents. That is, "Irish" means "both parents born in Ireland;" "German," means "both parents born in Germany," and

so on.

TABLE 11.-White women of foreign parentage under 45 years of age married more than one year, classified by parentage and nativity: Total number tabulated, number in first generation (born abroad), and number in second generation (born in United States).

OHIO: CLEVELAND AND 48 RURAL COUNTIES. 1900.

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The number included in the second generation of some of the nationalities distinguished in the foregoing table is very small. This is especially the case with the second generation of Austrians, Hungarians, Italians, Poles, Russians, and Swedes, many of whom, belonging to a comparatively recent class of immigrants, had not resided in the United States long enough to have native-born children of childbearing age.

While in the city of Cleveland but a third of the married women of foreign parentage under consideration belonged to the second generation, in the selected rural counties of Ohio nearly two-thirds were of the second generation. This is partly accounted for by the fact that nationalities of an early type of immigration made up a considerable proportion of the total foreign nationalities in the selected counties.

Proportion bearing no children.-The next table shows the proportion of women under 45 years of age married 10 to 19 years who have borne no children, the figures for Cleveland and the 48 largely rural counties being presented separately.

TABLE 12.-Women under 45 years of age married ten to nineteen years, classified by parentage and nativity: Total number tabulated, and number and per cent bearing no children.

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TABLE 12.-Women under 45 years of age married ten to nineteen years, classified by parentage and nativity: Total number tabulated, and number and per cent bearing no children-Continued."

OHIO: CLEVELAND AND 48 RURAL COUNTIES. 1900-Continued.

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Of the native white women of native parentage shown in the foregoing table as residing in Cleveland the proportion that had borne no children was 15.2 per cent, and of the white women of foreign parentage it was 6.3 per cent, a much smaller proportion. In the 48 fargely rural counties the difference between these two classes is not very great, 5.7 per cent of the native white women having borne no children as compared with 5.1 per cent of the white women of foreign parentage.

For nearly all classes the percentage of married women bearing children was somewhat larger in the city of Cleveland than i rural counties. In the case of native white women the perce for Cleveland was nearly three times as great.

These comparisons indicate in a striking way the effect city life and environment have had in reducing the fecundity native American people. In the rural counties the childless mi women of native American stock are hardly more numerous pro tionately than those of foreign parentage; but in the city of Ci land the contrast between the two classes in this respect is v marked, as is indicated by the percentages cited above, and this co trast arises largely from the decline in the fecundity of women of Ame

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