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CONTENTS.
Page.
Abstract of the report on the children of immigrants in schools..
1-86
Scope and method...
5
Public-school pupils-The general investigation
9
Public-school pupils-The intensive investigation
32
Comparison of public and parochial school summaries.
Public-school teachers in the elementary grades and kindergartens
Parochial-school pupils-The general investigation....
Statistical completeness of the data for pupils in public and parochial
schools...
Students in higher educational institutions..
Abstract of the report on immigrants as charity seekers
48
63
70
73
76
Age of persons involved in cases assisted..
128
129
136
Conjugal condition of persons involved in cases assisted.
General occupation of persons under 16 years of age..
Years in the United States..
Digest of the report on Honolulu, Hawaii.
Description of general tables...
Abstract of the report on immigration and crime.
Introductory..
Census data on volume of crime_
Character and scope of the investigation..
Method of analysis.....
General summary of results.
Immigrants and natives..
The second generation..
Races and nationalities
New York court of general sessions, Oct. 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909.
County and supreme courts, New York State, 1907-8..
The city of Chicago: Police arrests, 1905 to 1908..
Massachusetts penal institutions: Commitments during the year ending
Alien prisoners in the United States in 1908.
The entry of foreign criminals into the United States..
Immigration and insanity....
Insane persons deported after landing
137
142
147
151
152
154
159-221
163
165
170
172
175
178
182
183
189
193
198
204
211
221
223-251
227
229
Insane and feeble-minded aliens in the United States.
Foreign-born insane in institutions, 1908...
231
The ratio of insanity among the native-born and among the foreign-born.
The native-born of foreign father compared with the native-born of native
father.
234
235
The alien insane, classified by nationality or race..
237
The tendency to insanity among the immigrants, by nationality or race..
Possible causes of high ratios of insanity among the foreign-born....
Summary..
241
245
251
Abstract of the report on immigrant homes and aid societies
305-322
Discharge of immigrants to immigrant homes and aid societies..
309
Scope and methods of investigation..
312
Missionaries and representatives..
315
Immigrant homes..
318
Discharge of immigrant women and girls by immigrant homes and aid
societies.
319
Introductory.
Extent of violations of the law
Nationality...
Abstract of the report on importation and harboring of women for immoral
purposes..
Methods of investigation....
323-350
327
329
330
332
The reasons for the business
Recruiting...
Methods of importation.
Marriage to American citizens.
Difficulties of detection..
System of exploitation.
The control of the girl.
334
337
339
341
The women in the houses.
343
Origin of the system in the United States and application of the term..
Extent of system in the United States and races to which it is at present
confined.
391
392
Living conditions and environment of Greek aliens laboring under the
system....
393
Effect of system on aliens, mentally, morally, and physically..
History of the padrone system in the United States in connection with
shoe-shining establishments..
396
398
Effect of system in certain industries
402
The Greek padrone system in the United States-Continued.
Causes in Greece and in this country which render the aliens willing to
submit to the system
Methods adopted in Greece to induce migration of new material for labor
-
Remittances abroad..
Rate of exchange..
Relation with banking houses..
Unsoundness of the system...
Failures and defalcations...
State laws on the subject..
Difficulties of legislation..
General opinions and recommendations.
Peonage..
Definition of peonage..
Scope and plan of investigation..
No punishment for simple slavery
Involuntary servitude in the West..
No prosecutions in the West...
Peonage in New England..
425
430
431
433
434
436
437
439-449
443
444
446
447
Abstract of the report on fecundity of immigrant women.
451-500
445
Rhode Island
457
Ohio
469
Minnesota
482
Comparative summary-Rhode Island, Ohio, and Minnesota..
494
Abstract of the report on changes in bodily form of descendants of immigrants. 501 556
General results of the investigation.......
505
Measurements of distinct types..
509
Relations between time of immigration and change of type...
527
Rate of physiological development of foreign-born and American-born...
Abstract of the report on Federal immigration legislation..
The native-American movement..
The "Know Nothing" movement.
"Know Nothings" in Congress..
Legislation favorable to foreigners.
The end of State legislation.
Law to encourage immigration
Opposition to contract labor...
State control declared unconstitutional.
Abstract of the report on Federal immigration legislation-Continued.
Investigations by the Industrial Commission..
574
The immigration law of 1907...
575
Legislation for the suppression of the white-slave traffic..
577
Chinese legislation...
578
Abstract of the report on steerage legislation, 1819 to 1908..
585-602
Abstract of the report on the immigration situation in other countries..... 603–647
United States immigration laws and regulations
731
Treaty, laws, and regulations governing the admission of Chinese to the
United States
783
United States naturalization laws and regulations..
819
Index
837-900