Show GROWTH OF POPULATION POPULATION From The Progress of or the tho World in inthe Inthe Inthe the American Monthly of Reviews for September Is Ta it I true tre then n that there here has been any appreciable Increase during d the present presen dece In the birthrate or on the other othe hand any an marked make decrease in the death deth rate rte which would favorably affect th the average averagE annual increase of or our total tola numbers number Doubtless the continued im improvement provement of f the sanitary conditions in inthe inthe Inthe the large towns and the general general progress in the conditions of DC living and in the treatment of disease are adding steadily i inot I IP if not rapidly to the average longevity o o of our people P l But t all r Indications fn would l tl tend J to confirm the impression that the aver ago ngo ag annual birthrate is declining rather than gaining In the United Unie States State In France Frace for example although the thu mod ern em Improvements In sanitation treat treatment ment of disease and care cre of children are aro diminishing the there has ha at atthe atthe the same time timo been such a a falling off of in Inthe the th birthrate that the total population figures are approximately maintained solely by reason of a moderate stream strem of or immigration from Italy Ialy and an other neighboring countries It I Is perhaps true te that tha Urro are a now some localities of considerable extent in the United States where If I It were not for the fact that there Is some immigration son and an also all that there is a comparatively high birth rate among the immigrants the total pop population population lation laton ong would by b no means hold Its Is own on account a of the lower e birthrate among rea re the native American element I tl An ann ana analytical I study of the facts fac that the te new census will wi gather ather must throw much I light l ht upon Interesting questions touching the present tendencies of f population In Inthis inthis n I this country If tha t statistics s are to be relied ro upon the tf increase sl In sp population p t i that was due to the excess of births birts over I deaths was about 14 per cent for tor the ten 1 v years ars but further pr assuming the I correctness of or the Immigration statistics for e past pt decade G d if we accept the es estimates es estimates which call cl for a population of SOO this thia year we shall sh l have to o look to t the excess of births over deaths for a again agin agala gala gain gin of ot almost 22 2 per cent et To anyone anyon at all al familiar talar with wih pr vital vit statistics it Is eIdent without further furher discussion that such a radical change chang in the conditions of ot population increase in the United States could not possibly have taken te place Even If f one were to be content with wih estimating that we should ha have e gained population a athe ar at arthe atthe the same Baie average rate rte in the current de do decade de cade as a In the one preceding it would still f l be necessary on account c n of the fall falling falling 1 t ing off In cels immigration m lo to rely e upon a considerably higher rate of gain l ln in the I excess of births over deaths in Ia order to I bring up the total And there Is no suf sufficient at reason to believe beleve that the stI ac actual actual census work will show any such gain If I the te decade deade should have re resulted salted suled not in the maintenance of the same rate rte per cent of or gain gIn as that of the th I preceding ten tea years ers but simply simp In the theIn gain In of a like number of people namely mely about 12 population would J be In round figures 00 Those who expect a greater geater aggregate than will wi be disappointed I |