| Show interesting JEWISH statistics THE eleventh census returns re veal some curious facts in relation to bo the jaws when it is understood chilt the jewish nation la in politically ej and in the Christ christian lan sense of th word Juda judaism lern is not a religion no common authority binds binda jews itt i the religious sense there is no court in existence before which a jew ca be b tried for heresy A council or q has no power to decree what is in jewish jewis belief or unbelief any ten adult adu israelites can form a congregation alq an appoint their own rabbi it is 18 not dot in frequent to find congregations without a rabbi nor have the jews aa adv V authorized creed except that writt elti by Maina Matmon ides during the middle ag agea if it may be so no considered but this thia forms no DO part of the jewish jells liturgy here theu then we are face to face with n polle maintaining an individuality I 1 tt race and reunion religion yet without a coti country or a creed this thin is one of the paradoxes of our time the census returns show that certain tta data were collected relating to 10 jewish families comprising ir persons resident in the united states on december there are altogether in this country about jews but a special form of schedule was prepared and sent to heads of jewish families whose names were furnished by rabbis and other leading exien complete returns relating to vital statistics have been received in 11 this way from families the social condition of this number fo shown by tv the fact that families one or more servants while kept no servant at all the latter class averaged per family while the richer class averaged the annual average marriage rate irate per thousand of the poor class was that of the rich the average dumber of births per thousand of wo inen anen between 16 15 and 60 50 of the poor class was 63 60 92 and of the rich the average annual number of deaths 0 of f the poor was per thousand of the well to do of the persons which comprise these were ere 28 93 3 were females making gt fk proportion of about males to females famales of this persons were born abroad and in the united audited states of the total male population above fifteen years of age had definite occupation among these there were lawyers medical men men teachers achels and authors clerks lb bankers cankers and brokers 2147 merchants 1797 commercial travelers retail dealers tle alers clear makers jewellers Je wellers tailors and farmers and gard eners nere the profession of the law does not gwm to agree with the jew the annual linnual death rate among lawyers per thousand was and among wholesale merchants makers come fiedt to the lawyers 71 4 being the death rate of the tobacco workers the death rate from diabetes among lews jews born in the united states to is 16 15 ar per 1000 while among jews of german lebirth it is 9 2 in nervous diseases ahe the death rate among american born jews is 47 per and of german vorn 34 per dr john S billings in an article on this f subject jub eject in the north american Ite review view sayf we cannot yet see the full bearing of 3 vany of the results obtained by the he tabulation of the data relating to these jewish families because the data col ejected by the eleventh census relating to persons esons of irish german french italian or r scandinavian descent residing in the united states have not yet been compiled into corresponding tables and are not available for comparison it ib is however evident that these ibele jews have a much lower death rate and decidedly greater reater longevity than the rest of our deop people f e and that their marriage and birth rates are below the average it also seems probable that they po possess sess a partial immunity from and a special liability to certain forms of disease that tha with prolonged residence in the united states their death rate is increasing and that their natural increase is somewhat greater in the south than it is in the north the data are not sufficient clent iu in number or in probable accuracy towar to warrant more than the statement that it is rather more than an even chance that these last conclusions are correct but bui certainly certain lv give eive rise to questions which merit extended and careful investigation vesti gation the preat great majority of the peculiarities in these vital statistics appear to be connected with the occupation social relations and mode of life of the people rather than with special race characteristics acte and they will therefore tend to disappear so far as the jews mode of life becomes assimilated to that of their neighbors in europe the jews have t been kept apart from other races par parly ly by religious and other ties tie acting froin froia within and partly by compressive persecution acting from without in this country both of those causes of segregation and of consequent hereditary transmission miss ion of physiological peculiarities are becoming weaker eaker wa the latter 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