TABLE 49.-Number of pupils for whom information was secured in the intensive investigation conducted by the Immigration Commission and annual average attendance as shown by other records.

@ This column includes both complete and incomplete cards.

In 4 of the 7 cities where this method of enumeration was pursued-Bay City, Johnstown, New Bedford, and New Britain-the number for whom information was secured approximates very closely the average annual attendance. In 2 of the cities-Cedar Rapids and Chelsea-there is considerable difference between the two sets of figures, and the fact that for these cities the returns are not complete should be borne in mind in using the material.

For the parochial schools it is possible to compare the number of pupils for whom information was secured by the Immigration Commission with the register of pupils in the official directory of those schools. Such a comparison is made in the table which follows:

TABLE 50.-Returns from parochial schools compared with official records.

The Commission's figures in the aggregate are 70.9 per cent of the enrollment. Taking into consideration the difference between the total enrollment and the attendance on any one day, it is probable that the Commission's figures cover approximately all of the pupils present on the day of the enumeration. Where omissions have occurred it has generally been a whole school.

STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

Information relative to students in higher educational institutions was secured from 77 institutions. The departments included are the following: Academic, engineering and technological, medicine, law, postgraduate, pharmacy, theology, dentistry, veterinary. The form used in collecting the data is shown on page 686.

The tables which follow show, by sex, for each of the departments covered, the number of students for whom information was secured. The data are presented by general nativity and race of student. The first table shows the males and the second the females.

TABLE 51.-Number of male students in higher educational institutions for whom information was secured, by department and by general nativity and race of student.

TABLE 51.-Number of male students in higher educational institutions for whom information was secured, by department and by general nativity and race of student— Continued.

TABLE 52.-Number of female students in higher educational institutions for whom information was secured, by department and by general nativity and race of student.

Information was secured from 25,779 males and 7,103 females. The number in each department is as follows:

The table which follows shows the total number of males and the total number of females for whom information was secured, and the per cent of distribution. The data are presented by general nativity and race of student and the percentages indicate what proportion the students of each race form of the total number for whom information was secured:

TABLE 53.-Race distribution of students in higher educational institutions, by sex.