The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan.

  • Morgan, John Edward, 1829-1892.
Date:
1866
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    numerous in the towns. Young men, at an earlier age, earn such a livelihood as appears to justify them in contracting matrimony. Ano- ther reason, not sufficiently taken into account in dealing with this question, will be found in the far larger proportion of adults of a mar- riageable age who are settled in the towns. This will be seen in my sixth table (see Appen- dix, table 6, page 61); the percentage of persons of the productive age (15 to 45) in the four great towns is there calculated at 49. In the agricultural counties, taken collectively, it did not exceed 42*5. In one of the counties— Suffolk—it was as low as 40 per cent.; and in several others 41 per cent. It would thus appear that there are, in the towns, about 13 per cent, more persons of a marriageable age than are to be found among the rural dis- o o tricts; and consequently we should anticipate nat the natural increase of population would prove (at least to this extent) in favor of the towns, even though no additional inducements existed to early marriages. In this table, like- wise, we obtain further confirmation of all that