SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF MIGRATION 43 
to have statistics of the immigration of races like the Slovaks, Poles, 
and Hebrews® which either constitute only apart of the immigration 
from some one country or, on the other hand, an important fraction 
of the immigration from two or more countries, the U. S. Bureau of 
Immigration began in 1899 to collect statistics of immigration by 
race or people. Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, 
CHART 5 
Gross AND NET IMMIGRATION OF SELECTED RACES: 
Jury 1, 1907, To June 30, 1923. 
fe ~"0 506-10 1000000 1500,000 
SOUTH ITALIAN Wd A) 7 
HEBREW 7] 
POLISH 
ENGLISH 
GERMAN 
SCANDINAVIAN 
IRISH ' IMMIGRATION 
GREEK EMIGRATION 
NORTH ITALIAN _ NET IMMIGRATION 
"RUSSIAN 
sNumerical data in Table 5. 
similar statistics are available for emigration. The numerical facts 
concerning the immigration and emigration of the nine races which 
contributed the largest numbers of immigrants in the sixteen years 
from July 1, 1907, to June 30, 1923, are given in Table 5 and Chart 
5. Though it is not the tenth in number of immigrants, the Russian 
race is also included to facilitate comparison with the numbers of 
10bjection is sometimes made to the use of the word Hebrew as indicating a race’ 
Here again we have followed the practice of the Bureau of Immigration in designating 
the Hebrews as a “race or people.” 
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