Abstracts of reports of the Immigration commision

United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration

Contents

• Scope and method: 5
• Race distribution of pupils in public schools by city percentages 1821: 18
• Number of pupils in the different kinds of public schools by general: 24
• Foreign races ranking highest and second highest and lowest and sec: 30
• Retardation by birthplace of pupil: 37
• Retardation by grade entered in public school: 39
• Number of public school teachers in the elementary grades: 49
• Race distribution of teachers in the public schools of 30 cities: 55
• Number of teachers engaged in teaching each specified number: 62
• Foreign races ranking first and second in number of parochial: 70
• Statistical completeness of the data for pupils in public and parochial: 73
• Number of male students in higher educational institutions: 76
• Race distribution of male students by department percentages: 82
• Method and scope of the investigation: 91
• Aid given: 124
• Age of persons involved in cases assisted: 136
• General occupation of persons under 16 years of age: 142
• Ability to speak English: 151
• Abstract of the report on immigration and crime 159221: 159
• The entry of foreign criminals into the United States: 221
• Aliens excluded because of mental unsoundness: 227
• The ratio of insanity among the nativeborn and among the foreignborn: 234
• Immigrants in charity hospitals 253290: 238
• The tendency to insanity among the immigrants by nationality or race: 241
• Summary: 251
• Abstract of the report on steerage conditions 291303: 291
• Abstract of the report on immigrant homes and aid societies 305322: 305
• Abstract of the report on importation and harboring of women for immoral: 323
• Methods of investigation: 329
• Methods of importation: 337
• The women in the houses: 343
• Some tangible results of the investigation: 349
• Alien seamen: 355
• Discharged alien seamen: 361
• Conclusions: 367
• The Greek padrone system in the United States 387408: 387
• The Greek padrone system in the United StatesContinued Page: 389
• Abstract of the report on immigrant banks 409438: 409
• Introductory: 443
• Abstract of the report on fecundity of immigrant women 451500: 451
• Abstract of the report on changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants 501556: 501
• Abstract of the report on Federal immigration legislation 557584: 557
• 1938: 562
• The immigration law of 1891: 571
• Abstract of the report on Federal immigration legislationContinued Page: 574
• and 2 Abstracts of Reports of the Immigration Commission with Conclusions and Recom: 577
• Abstract of the report on steerage legislation 1819 to 1908 585602: 585
• Abstract of the report on the immigration situation in other countries 603647: 603
• Australia: 631
• Argentina: 639
• Appendixes 649835: 649
• Index 837900: 900

Bibliographic information

• Title: Abstracts of reports of the Immigration commision; Volume 2 of Reports of the Immigration Commission, United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
• Author: United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 21, 2008