The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of FactsSanger, Margaret
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The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts
Sanger, Margaret
Birth control; Eugenics
The Italians have been in Johnstown somewhat longer than the
Serbo-Croatians and they seem to have a little firmer grip on the
community life there. Their homes are a shade better, a trifle cleaner,
and somewhat less crowded than those of the Serbo-Croatians, although
their hygienic standards seem little if any higher and they rank no
better in literacy. The women do not perform the arduous duties that are
the lot of so many of the Serbo-Croatian women; they have not the robust
physique of the latter and the men are not found in those branches of
the steel industry which require the extraordinary strength possessed by
the Serbo-Croatians. The occupations of the Italian fathers were found
to be more diversified than those of the Serbo-Croatians, some being
fruit, grocery, or cheese merchants; steamship agents; bricklayers,
carpenters, or workers at other skilled and semiskilled trades.
SLOVAK, POLISH, ETC.
The infant mortality rate in the group designated “Slovak, Polish, etc.”
is 177.1. In this group are included all the Slavic races represented in
the investigation excepting the Serbo-Croatian. The babies of Slovak[17]
mothers were found to be most numerous, there being 276 of them. There
were 108 babies of Polish,[18] 2 of Bohemian,[19] and 7 of Ruthenian[20]
mothers. In addition, one baby of a Scandinavian (Danish) mother was
included, not because Scandinavians bear the least racial resemblance to
the Slavic races, but because the few Scandinavians in Johnstown
happened to be on about the same economic footing as the “Slovak,
Polish, etc.”
Footnote 17:
Slovaks occupy practically all except the Ruthenian territory of
northern Hungary; also found in great numbers in southeast Moravia.
They are the Moravians conquered by Hungary. In physical type no
dividing line can be drawn between Slovaks and Moravians. It is often
claimed that Slovak is a Bohemian dialect.
Footnote 18:
The west Slavic race native to the former Kingdom of Poland. For the
most part they adhere to the Roman rather than the Greek Orthodox
Catholic Church.
Footnote 19:
The westernmost division or dialect of the Czech and the principal
people or language of Bohemia. Czech is the westernmost race or
linguistic division of the Slavic (except Wendish, in Germany), the
race or people residing mainly in Bohemia and Moravia.
Footnote 20:
Also known as Little Russians; live principally in southern Russia;
also share Galicia with the Poles but greatly surpassed by Poles in
number. In language and physical type resemble Slovaks. Generally
Greek Orthodox, but a few are Greek Catholics of the Roman Catholic
Church, whose priests marry, and are separated from other Roman
Catholics by marked religious differences.
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