CHART 48
SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS IN ALIEN ARRIVALS.
Note the similarity from year to year in the shape of the curves.
Only the shape, not the vertical
position, of these curves is signiricant:
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MALE IMMIGRANTS
MALE NON-IMMIGRANTS
FEMALE IMMIGRANT S
FEMALE NON-IMMIGRANTS
(7909 | 75:0 [ 1.4 | 19121913
*The numerical data for male immigrants are in Appendix Table II. The other
curves are plotted from monthly data®published by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration
and Naturalization in its monthly Immigration Bulletin.
For a more complete discussion of the method of constructing the above chart, see
footnote (b) to Chart 27, in Chapter VII.

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