Analysis of America's Modern Melting Pot: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, Third Session. November 21, 1922. Serial 7-C. |
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45 Turkey admission Austria-Hungary average age Balkan Peninsula Belgium blind born white Bulgaria census cent allotment cent distribu cent of quota CHAIRMAN Committee on Immigration country of birth crime criminalistic defect degeneracy disease Doctor LAUGHLIN epilepsy epileptic Expert Eugenics Agent federal custodial institutions feeble-minded Finland first-hand returns supplied foreign white stock fulfilled their quota group or country group or race hereditary Institutional findings institutional inmates Institutional quotas Institutions making returns Luxemburg Montenegro Native white nativity and racial nativity groups Netherlands Newfoundland North Dakota Northwestern Europe Norway Number expected number of institutional Pacific Islands parents foreign born parents native born particular group persons population in 1910 potentially insane probable error quota fulfillment racial groups Russia Scandinavia secured from first-hand Serbia show a quota socially inadequate statistical studies survey tion Total foreign white total numbers tuberculosis Turkey in Europe types of social United States population West Indies whole institutional population whole population
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Page 729 - ... or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living...
Page 730 - ... persons who have been deported under any of the provisions of this act, and who may again seek admission within one year from the date of such deportation, unless prior to their re-embarkation at a foreign port or their attempt to be admitted irom foreign contiguous territory the secretary of labor shall have consented to their reapplying for admission...
Page 738 - We in this country have been so imbued with the idea of democracy, or the equality of all men, that we have left out of consideration the matter of blood or natural born hereditary mental and moral differences. No man who breeds pedigreed plants and animals can afford to neglect this thing...
Page 730 - ... (6) diseased (including the tuberculous, the syphilitic, the leprous, and others with chronic infectious and legally segregable diseases); (7) blind (including those with seriously impaired vision); (8) deaf (including those with seriously impaired hearing); (9) deformed (including the...
Page 763 - Other types, acute or chronic 10. Psychoses due to drugs and other exogenous toxins (a) Opium (and derivatives), cocaine, bromides, chloral, etc., alone or combined (to be specified) (b) Metals, as lead, arsenic, etc. (to be specified) ( c ) Gases ( to be specified ) (d) Other exogenous toxins (to be specified) 11. Psychoses with pellagra 12. Psychoses...
Page 755 - making all logical allowances for environmental conditions, which may be unfavorable to the immigrant, the recent immigrants, as a whole, present a higher percentage of inborn socially inadequate qualities than do the older...
Page 730 - A socially inadequate person is one who by his or her own effort, regardless of etiology or prognosis, fails chronically, in comparison with normal persons, to maintain himself or herself as a useful member of the organized social life of the state...
Page 730 - ... persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude...
Page 729 - All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously...
Page 730 - ... for one or more socially inadequate inmates; provided that the term custodial institution shall not apply to a private household in which the socially inadequate member or members are close blood-kin or marriage relations to, or legally adopted by, an immediate member of the caretaking family. (i) An inmate is a socially inadequate person who is a prisoner, patient, pupil, or member of, or who is otherwise held, treated, trained, cared for, or resident within a custodial institution, regardless...