Show Daily Health Service This Is the second of or three articles arti arU cles des In which Dr Fishbein explains the significance of at the Dionne quintuplets to 10 scientists By Dr DR MORRIS 1 FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of the Health Magazine 1 In their study of the scientific significance significance sig sig- sig- sig of or the Dionne quintuplets the University of Minnesota Investigator investigator gator next obtained the views of the professor proCessor of sociology Dean M. M M. M Wille Of or course the birth of ot five C chil hl children children I. I dren at one time to one mother Is Ismore Ismore ismore more interesting to the biologist than to the sociologist Sociologists are arc interested In problems problems problems lems of population and economics economies and the relation of people to one another another an an- other and to the civilization in which they live Jive Everybody knows that in the United Stat States s and indeed through the world generally the average size of or families has hac been declining In 1900 the average family consisted of or 67 persons In 1930 it il was per r. r sons A case like that of the Is unusual al because ause in one moment this family became larger than the average aver age family anywhere else in the world In 1900 the childless families In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United States Stales represented 28 per percent percent percent cent of the total number It is interesting interesting inter inter- esting also to realize reaUze the manner in which the rural districts ak aEe are providing provid provide ing t the population rather than the cities Dean Wille points out that only family Camily In si six living Jiving on farms was without children or 01 without children living JivIng at home In the small towns one family in four was without children chil dren whereas in our cities almost every other family is 15 without children chil chil- dren a aThe The sociologists aL also alo o a arc re Interested in the age at time of marriage and relationship of the age of the parents to lo birth Ind Indeed ed the sociologists real really are arc interested more in the family than in any an other unit of at our civilization because up to now the family has been the basis bacis of civilized life The were married in 1925 when the they were still in their teens which was in line with ith the gr gradual tendency in the United Slates States to marriage mar mar- nage at earlier ages However Howe there are few women indeed who at the age of oC 24 H. H have given birth to to 11 chil chil- dren It is ver very ery fortunate that this does not become habitual throughout the country If IC that ever becomes the tendency the I sociologists will really h have e 1 something to lo worry about Next The doctor and welfare work work- er r look at th the quI |