| Table 30.—Distribution of Live Births and of Deaths During First Year, and Infant Mortality Rate, According to Annual Earnings of Father and Nativity of Mother, for Legitimate Live-Born Babies. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ANNUAL EARNINGS OF FATHER ACCORDING TO NATIVITY OF WIFE. | Total live births. | Deaths during first year. | Infant mortality rate. |
| Total | 1,431 | 187 | 130.7 |
| Under $625 | 384 | 82 | 213.5 |
| Under $521 | 219 | 56 | 255.7 |
| $521 to $624 | 165 | 26 | 157.6 |
| $625 to $899 | 385 | 47 | 122.1 |
| $625 to $779 | 224 | 24 | 107.1 |
| $780 to $899 | 161 | 23 | 142.9 |
| $900 or more | 186 | 18 | 96.8 |
| $900 to $1,199 | 138 | 14 | 101.4 |
| $1,200 or more | 48 | 4 | 83.3 |
| Ample[[1]] | 476 | 40 | 84.0 |
| Husbands with native wives | 785 | 76 | 96.8 |
| Under $625 | 80 | 16 | 200.0 |
| Under $521 | 32 | 9 | ([[31]]) |
| $521 to $624 | 48 | 7 | 145.8 |
| $625 to $899 | 193 | 20 | 103.6 |
| $625 to $779 | 86 | 6 | 69.8 |
| $780 to $899 | 107 | 14 | 130.8 |
| $900 or more | 129 | 10 | 77.5 |
| $900 to $1,199 | 92 | 7 | 76.1 |
| $1,200 of more | 37 | 3 | ([[31]]) |
| Ample[[1]] | 383 | 30 | 78.3 |
| Husbands with foreign wives | 646 | 111 | 171.8 |
| Under $625 | 304 | 66 | 217.1 |
| Under $521 | 187 | 47 | 251.3 |
| $521 to $624 | 117 | 19 | 162.4 |
| $625 to $899 | 192 | 27 | 140.6 |
| $625 to $779 | 138 | 18 | 130.4 |
| $780 to $899 | 54 | 9 | 166.7 |
| $900 or more | 57 | 8 | 140.6 |
| $900 to $1,199 | 46 | 7 | 152.2 |
| $1,200 or more | 11 | 1 | ([[31]]) |
| Ample[[32]] | 93 | 10 | 107.5 |
[31]. Total live births less than 50; base therefore considered too small to use in computing an infant mortality rate.
In considering the babies of native and of foreign mothers separately in the foregoing table, similar variations in mortality rates according to earnings of father are found, although the foreign infant death rate is higher in each group. The foreign are less numerous both actually and relatively in the higher wage groups.
The foreigners of a given wage group almost always live in a poorer neighborhood than the natives earning the same amount. The foreigners go where they find their own countrymen, most of whom are poor, and hence even those who earn a fair wage find themselves, until they become Americanized, surrounded by poor conditions and an ignorant class of people.
It is of interest to note what per cent. of the native and what per cent. of the foreign are in the several earnings groups. The next table shows this for all married mothers and not simply for those of live-born babies as in the foregoing table.
| Table 31.—Number and Per Cent of Mothers by Nativity, According to the Annual Earnings of Husband. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANNUAL EARNING OF HUSBAND. | ALL MOTHERS. | NATIVE MOTHERS. | FOREIGN MOTHERS. | |||
| Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | |
| Total | 1,491 | 100.0 | 816 | 100.0 | 675 | 100.0 |
| Under $521 | 233 | 15.6 | 36 | 4.4 | 197 | 29.2 |
| $521 to $624 | 174 | 11.7 | 50 | 6.1 | 124 | 18.4 |
| $625 to $779 | 229 | 15.4 | 86 | 10.5 | 143 | 21.2 |
| $780 to $899 | 166 | 11.1 | 108 | 13.2 | 58 | 8.6 |
| $900 to $1,199 | 146 | 9.8 | 98 | 12.0 | 48 | 7.1 |
| $1,200 and over | 50 | 3.4 | 39 | 4.8 | 11 | 1.6 |
| Ample[[33]] | 493 | 33.1 | 399 | 48.9 | 94 | 13.9 |
The 1,491 married mothers included in the foregoing table bore 1,517 babies in 1911, the excess being due to plural births. The 33 unmarried mothers and their 34 babies (one mother had twins), although included in some of the general tables, are not included in those relative to the earnings of the husband.