Show HEBREWS IN AMERICA results announced of a special inquiry by the census the division of vital statistics of the census office has prepared a bulletin says the washing washington ton star containing a summary of the results of a special inquiry concerning the jews in this country A special schedule was prepared calling for details of age sex conjugal condition place of birth occupation etc of each person in the family reported who was living on the of december and of certain details concerning births marriages and deaths occurring in the family for the five years ended on that date these schedules were distributed to heads of jewish families in all parts of the united states the necessary names and addresses being obtained from rabbis of congregations and officers of different societies xo effort was made to obtain complete returns from country nor to develop any facts concerning religious or commercial questions but merely to obtain data from a I 1 number of families who have been in the united states five or more years to afford some reliable deductions concerning the effect of residence under the conditions of life in this country as contrasted with those elsewhere the inquiry resulted in the return of completed family schedules embracing living persons on the alst day of december and in these families there had been marriages births and 2062 deaths during tho five years ending that data tho social condition of the families is indicated to some extent by the number of servants kept by them and as about two thirds are reported as keeping one or more servants the families reported may be said to be in easy circumstances the number of persons to each family on december 31 1889 was and the average annual number for the five years covered by these statistics was the average annual number of marriages per 1000 of total population was much lower than the general rate 74 as against 18 to 1000 in the eastern states and the average age at marriage is greater than among the general population the low marriage rate and the increased average age at marriage are the principal reasons for the low birth rate the deaths reported for the five years give an average annual death rate of per 1000 of population being about half of the average rate for the general population the expectation of life at the age of 10 years based upon the death rate for the year 1889 is call and years for males and females respectively as against and as calculated by life insurance companies for the general population of this country contrasting the birth and death rates for those of native born and foreign bom parents indicates that the birth rate is decreasing and the death rate increasing with more prolonged residence in ahls but the c beneral results indicate mat toe jews here retain many of the peculiarities which have been noted among them in europe |