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Show FOREIGNERS ARE BETTERPARENTS New York. May 9. That the parents par-ents of forelffn birth make the most successful fathers aod mothers, at least amonc; the poor, is shown by statistics of Infant mortality, gathered gath-ered by the physicians of the free outdoor maternity clinic here. The figures demonstrate. In the opinion of the physicians, that the children of foreign parents are more hardy than those of native Americans and that the reduction In infant mortality in recent years is laTgoly due to tho Influx In-flux of a foreign population. in cases studied, where both parents par-ents were born in the United States, the mortality rate was 130. Whore both parents were foreign-born, tho rate was only 117. Where the mother moth-er w as foreign.' the rate was 11C and where the father was foreign aud the mother native, R was 132. |