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