Statistics of Crime, 1875-95.(1)

Foreign British

born Amer'n. English Irish Scotch
228. 220 1,040 67

In addition there were 69 Italian prisoners in 1895.
The influnce of immigration can also be realized
in increase of insanity in Massachusetts. The records
of the state hospitals for nineteen years (1880-1898)
show a total of 31,269 cases of insanity admitted to
these institutions (2). The parentage of these cases
was as follows, clearly indicating the position of
the foreign element:

Even more marked was the effect on pauperism,

(1) Census of Mass.(1875)p.452; Census of 1885, pp.1220
-1225; Census of 1895, pp.396, 400, 424.

(2) Report of Board of Health, etc.(1898), LXXVII.

foreigners contributing about a half of the state paupers---Great Britain and Ireland maintaining an increasing lead:

Nativities of State Paupers.

1) Mass. Pub. Doc., 1865, No.19, p.380.

2) Census of 1875, p.452.

(3) Census of 1885, p.1265.

4) Census of 1895, p.473.