Immigration

by Henry Pratt Fairchild

[137]. Clapp, Edwin J., The Port of Hamburg, pp. 667–688; Evans-Gordon, op. cit., Ch. XIII.

[138]. Rept. Com. Gen. of Imm., 1910, p. 118.

[139]. Rept. Imm. Com., Emig. Cond. in Eur., Abs., p. 37.

[140]. Ibid., p. 38.

[141]. For a fuller description of the system of medical examination, see the Report of the Immigration Commission, Emig. Cond. in Eur., Abs., pp. 35 ff., from which many of the above facts are taken.

[142]. See p. 149.

[143]. For fuller accounts of the steerage and life therein, see Rept. Imm. Com., Steerage Conditions; Steiner, E. A., On the Trail of the Immigrant; Brandenburg, B., Imported Americans, Chs. III, XIV, XV.

[144]. Rept. Com. Gen. of Imm., 1910, p. 135.

[145]. Cf. Brandenburg, B., Imported Americans, Chs. XVII and XVIII.

[146]. See an editorial in the New York Evening Journal, May 24, 1911.