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tents. In ten camps there were no bunks and the men had to sleep on 

 the ground. 



As regards the nationality of the labourers 7.06 per cent, of the immi- 

 grants in the 663 camps inspected were Mexicains, 11.40 were Italians, 4.76 

 were Japanese, 3.16 were Spaniards, 2.65 were Portuguese and 2.34 were 

 Greeks. 



The work accomplished by the Commission of Immigration and Housing 

 was summarized by Governor Hiram W. Johnson in his message to the Ca- 

 lif ornian legislature in 191 5. " The labour camps of the State of California 

 were in man}' cases unfit for human habitation. The Commission of Immi- 

 gration and Housing undertook a s^^stematic inspection of these camps. 

 Hundreds of them it has cleaned up and rendered sanitary. For more 

 than 60,000 human beings the Commission has provided better and more 

 sanitary places in which to live, and for this great work, so well performed, 

 the Commission has the thanks not only of those who were unable to aid 

 themselves and have benefited, but of the State at large ". 



