SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF RECENT IMMIGRATION 49
within a comparatively short period after landing. In
some instances this might have been anticipated if
the history of the patient had been known, but other
wise there was no means of detection. The present
law on this point seems to be satisfactory, and its en
forcement generally good under the very difficult con
ditions ; but it would be desirable to have a larger
force of experts to examine, and also, if it were prac
ticable, to provide some better means for securing the
history of arriving immigrants.
The tables on page 51, taken from the Special Re
port of the United States Census, which some observa
tions by the Immigration Commission in Bellevue and
Allied Hospitals in New York and reports of the
Bureau of Immigration tend to confirm, throw some
light on the relative tendencies of certain races toward
insanity, and show that certain aliens are more in
clined toward insanity than are native-born Americans.
RACIAL OR NATIONAL TENDENCIES
The high ratio of insanity prevailing among for
eign-born persons in the United States may be due, in
a measure at least, to racial or national tendencies.
Data showing the number of insane and the ratio
of insanity in the principal European countries and in
Canada are afforded by the Special Report of the
Census Bureau. These data, together with like data
for the United States, obtained from the same source,
are presented on page 51.
Racial Tendencies and Disease*
Michael M. Davis, Jr., in his book on “Immigrant
* The facts regarding this section have been taken from the book on
“Immigrant Health and the Community/* by Michael M. Davis, Jr.