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Show THE CHILDREN OF THIS COUNTRY Th'- government h:u sent out a bul-letin bul-letin on statistics of children us ub-.iinod ub-.iinod Tom the last ionsus Arrording to the figures, on April 115, 1910. Uncle Sam had 2t.459.13fi children under 15 years of age and th made up almost one-third of blj entire family. Almost all these chil (Iron were born on his own soil. The i i reign-born white children numbered 759,846 and formed only 2 0 per cent of (he total number of children Many of the native children are, or . nurse. Hie children of immigrant The figure! show that in 1910 ther wen 7,226,689 native white children with ono or both parents foreign-boru The native white with both parents nxflvi n!iinhrf-(l 17.7D1.B80 and form I ml 60.1 per cent of all the children In ihe country There were 3,665,107 ne gro children, forming 12.4 per cent of the total number The negro children are found main ly in the southern and southwestern states, whereas the foreign born whites are located principally in Now England and In the middle Atlantic and North Central states The native whites of native parentage are, of course, more evenly distributed and are present In large numbers in all secflons of the country The figures show the importance of giving thought to the welfare of the children in the smaller cities and la rural communities Social work for children baa been developed to a high degree in many of our large cities, but the figures show that leBS than one child In five Is living In a city of , 100.0O0 inhabitants or over and thai three children in five are living In villages of less than 2.50U Inhabitants or In distinctly rural communities. In New Lnglnnd and in the middle Atlantic, At-lantic, north central and Pacific states the percentage of children liv ing in cities of 100,000 inhabitants of over is far greater, reaching as hirh : as 13 4 in the middle Atlantic group. In the south Atlantic and south central cen-tral states, on the other hand, the per centage living m Hies of 100,000 or . over is small the highest being 6 6 r In the south Atlantic states, but the percentage In rural districts is hiRh. 1 being above 80 In all the southern d!-( d!-( visions i oo |