Population problems / by Edward Byron Reuter.

  • Reuter, Edward Byron, 1880-1946.
Date:
1923
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Credit: Population problems / by Edward Byron Reuter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'population theories and prac¬ tice of, 40-4, 198 Group welfare, conditions of, 8 Growth of population, 90-118, 143-41 among n o n-c u 11 u r e people, 90-1; as affected by emigration, 185-6; conditions favoring, in the United States, 11; control of, 10-11, 14; Euro¬ pean, 92-5; in future, 107; in Oriental world, 96-7; in mediae¬ val Europe, 91-2 Health, as a community problem, 363; ideal, 252; importance of, 251-3; improvement in, 256; neglect of problem of, 12-13 Heredity, and environment, 204- 5; as explaining success, 279; defective, 305-6, 317 Human ability, 201-3 Ideal, of population number, 108 Illegitimate children, birth rate of, 138-41; death rate of, 157- 61 Illiteracy, amount of, in the United States, 34-5; in urban and rural population, 35 Immigrants, and emigration, 9, 51, 183-6; language spoken by, 297; Oriental, 13; personal demoralization of, 297-8; qual¬ ity of, 295-6; sex composition of, 31; selection of, 13 Immigration, 3, 9, 14, 15, 51, 267, 183-197, 285-302; and displace¬ ment of stocks, 292-4; and growth of population, 186-92, 195-7; and problem of num¬ bers, 183-97; and problem of quality, 285-302; and religion, 297; and the birth rate, 192-4; as an economic problem, 14; attitude toward, 12; German, 288; in theory of the Greeks, 43; the Irish, 288; neglect of opportunity to select, 13; North European, 288-9; qual¬ ity of the newer stock, 294-6; restriction of, 298-301; Scandi¬ navian, 288-9; selective, 30; social effects of, 296-8; South European, 289-92; statistics of, to America, 187-91 United Kingdom, 288 Increase, see population, desire for, 6, 98-9; European, 94-5; increase of, in means of sub¬ sistence, 88; of colored races, 21; of microscopic forms of life, 111-2; of plant life, 112- 3; of white population of the world, 20-1; of urban popula¬ tion, 37 India, famines in, 123-4; over¬ population of, 21, 104 Indian, American, 267-8; and Negro intermixture, 268; dis¬ tribution of, 25-6; intermixture with other races, 22; popula¬ tion in the United States, 25 Individual differences in men, 202-3, 207-8 Industrial revolution, 55-6 Industrial slaughter, as a check on population increase, 128-9 Inebriety, 307-8, 315 Infanticide, 9, 56, 129, 161 ; among Oriental peoples, 7; in ancient civilizations, 7; in Athens, 42; in primitive groups, 6-7; in Sparta, 41 Infant mortality, 153, 154-61; as affecting the death rate in sub¬ sequent years of life, 159-61; decline of, 158-60 Inferiority, 207, 303-17, 318; ad¬ ventitious, 305-9; congenital, 208-9, 304; defined, 303-4; in¬ crease of, 311-4; innate, 305- 9; problem of, 304-5; restric¬ tion on increase of, 314-7 Ingram, 66 Insanity, 306 Instincts of society, 87 Intensive agriculture, 105-6 Intermarriage, 277, 316-7; see amalgamation