THE PRE-WAR QUARTER CENTURY
TABLE 22.—RATIO OF DEPARTING MALE STEERAGE PASSENGERS TO MALE
JMMIGRANTS: 1870-1909.
B ¢ A B C
YEAR 1 1 Mare - YEAR i Mare
ENDING Mair STEERAGE | ENDING Mang STEERAGE
June 30 y PASSEN- Ramo} June 30 PASSEN- Ratio
GRAVIS GERs [B+A RAN | GERS ,B+A
(THOUS- (Trove (THOUS- (THOUS-
ANDS) NDE) ANDS) ANDS)
1870 235.6 31.9 135 | 1890 281.9 83.1 .295
1871 190.4 29.9 157 | 1891 354.1 89.0 .251
1872 240.2 27.2 | 113] 1892 385.8 96.8 | 251
1873 275.8 42.1 .153 | 1893 315.8 88.3 .280
1874 189.2 53.2 281 | 1894 184.0 112.9 .614
1875 140.0 ~~ 67.6 483 | 1895 157.3 123.8 787%
1876 11.8 53.3 | .477 | 1896 212.5 wiidB ees
1877 92.0 49.7 | .540% 1897 135.1 Lh, Peas
1878 86.3 40.8 473 | 1898 135.7 78.6 .579
1879 111.9 33.9 .303 | 1899 227.1 78.1 .344
1880 237.6 28.8 100 | 1900 304.1 7S.24.0 10.957
1881 410.7 33.9 082 | 1901 331.1 96.8 .202*
1882 498.8 45.5 091 | 1902 466 .4 100.0 214
1883 363.9 53.7 147 | 1903 | 613.1 132.9 217
1884 308.5 68.9 223 1 1904 549.1 209.2 .381*
1885 226.4 104.0 .459*] 1905 724.9 210.3 .290
1886 200.7 78.5 301 | 1906 | 764.5 179.9 .235
1887 306.7 67.1 219 | 1907 | 930.0 215.0 .231
1888 345.4 77.8 225 | 1908 | 506.9 378.2 746
1889 263.0 95.7 .364* 1909 520.0 199.9 1384
sFrom U. S. Bureau of Statistics, Arrivals of Alien Passengers and Immigrants into the United States
from 1820-1892 (pamphlet); the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance, June, 1903, pp. 4362-64;
and the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
bNo data published for 1896 and 1897.
*Peaks in the ratio.
Let us turn to the more detailed picture of emigration afforded by
the monthly statistics of emigration which are available for the
period beginning with July, 1907.
Net Alien Arrivals, by Months.
In Chart 18 we have a representation of the net increase or de-
crease in population through the arrival or departure of aliens, both
immigrant and nonimmigrant, emigrant and nonemigrant. The
net movement for both sexes is shown by the solid silhouette—
that for alien males only, by the double line which traverses the
silhouette and occasionally falls below it. Broadly speaking, this
curve reveals the tendency of the net movement to correlate directly
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