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 rate for this group is lower than that for either the
Serbo-Croatians or the Italians, but it is nevertheless very high and
one exceeded by only a few European countries, as shown by the table on
page 12.
Some of the “Slovaks, Poles, etc.,” live in the same squalid sections as
the Serbo-Croatians, and in the same type of inferior houses, but on the
whole they have been in Johnstown longer, are more prosperous, and are
therefore beginning to move from Cambria City and Woodvale, where
formerly practically all lived, into more desirable sections. Those who
have been in this country longest and intend to stay here are buying
homes with large yards in the less crowded sections and are raising
vegetables and flowers. Others, however, still remain in poor
neighborhoods and sometimes buy houses there for from $300 to $600 each,
built close together on rented ground.
Lodgers are by no means uncommon among the people in this group, but
usually their homes are cleaner, less crowded, and possessed of more
comforts than those of the Serbo-Croatians and Italians.
OTHER NATIONALITIES
The British[21] infant mortality rate in Johnstown is 129 and the German
127.7. The British and Germans in Johnstown are more prosperous than the
Slavic, Magyar, Jewish, Italian, Syrian, and Greek peoples, and regard
the others as “foreigners.” It was strange to hear a man, one who could
speak English, say, “We are not foreigners; we are Germans.” The British
and Germans occupy the same relative position economically that they
occupy in the infant mortality scale with relation to other races.
Footnote 21:
English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh included in the term British.
In the Magyar group, of 38 babies born alive 4 died in their first year,
making an infant mortality rate of 105.3, which is almost as low as that
for babies of native mothers. The Magyars are little if any better off
than the other “foreigners” among whom they live, but they possess
somewhat higher standards of living. They live in poor neighborhoods and
have inferior houses, but their homes are cleaner and they themselves
somewhat more alert, personally cleaner, and less illiterate than the
other foreigners.
There were but 10 babies of Hebrew mothers and 12 of Syrian and Greek
mothers; among these there were no deaths. These groups are too small
numerically to be significant in a comparative race study of infant
mortality.
STILLBIRTHS
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