a Includes Newfoundland.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF RECENT IMMIGRATION 5I
NUMBER AND RATIO OF INSANE IN UNITED STATES AND IN
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
[Compiled from United States Census, Special Report, “Insane and feeble-
minded in hospitals and institutions, 1904,” pp. 9 and 10.]
Country
Year
Insane in hospitals
Total insane ‘
Number
No. per
100,000 of
population
Number
No. per
100,009 of
population
United States
England and WaleB
1903
1903
1903
1903
1901
1904
1903
1899
1901
1902
1903
1901
1902
1903
1901
150,151
113,964
16,658
22,138
12,819
69,190
108,004
34,802
14,895
2,716
8,958
7,434
1,833
5,083
3,438
186.2
340.1
363.7
490.9
238.6
177.5
191.6
109.2
57.0
14.1
167.5
224.2
80.5
97.3
140.3
a 106,485
a 170.0
Scotland
Ireland . . .
Canada
16,495
307.6
trance
Uermany
Italy ...
Austria .
30,747
17,117
117.5
88.8
Hungary
Netherlands
Norway . . .
5,397
8,093
4,197
238.4
154.9
171.3
Sweden
Denmark . . .
a Figure for June 1, 1890.
FOREIGN-BORN WHITE INSANE ENUMERATED IN HOSPITALS IN
CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
December 31, 1903, compared with the total foreign-born population of conti
nental United States in 1900, by country of birth; per cent, distribution.
[Compiled from United States Census, Special Report, “Insane and feeble
minded in hospitals and institutions, 1904”; pp. 23 and 24.]
Per cent, distribution of—
Country op Birth
Ireland
Germany
England and Wales...
Canada"*
Scandinavia
Scotland
Italy
France •
Hungary and Bohemia
Russia and Poland....
Other countries
Total
Foreign-born
white insane
enumerated
in hospitals,
population
Dec. 31,
1900.
1903.
29.0
15.6
26.9
25.8
7.0
9.0
6.5
11.4
11.5
10.3
1.7
2.3
2.3
4.7
1.2
1.0
2.2
2.9
4.4
7.8
7.3
9.2
100.0
100.0