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Immigration. 



On April 16-17, 1920, Dr. H. H. Laughlin made a statement before 

 the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of 

 Representatives, which was printed by the Government Printing Office 

 during the current year, under the title, ''The biological aspects of 

 immigration." As a result of the evidence presented at this hearing, 

 this committee desired further first-hand analytical studies along the 

 same line. In order to secure the desired facts, the Committee on 

 Immigration and Naturalization and the Assistant Director of the 

 Eugenics Record Office are conducting a cooperative study which has 

 for its purpose the determination of the extent and specific type of 

 social inadequacy among foreign-born and native stock found in the 

 several State and Federal institutions. Also, the same correlations 

 between race and specific defect will be determined in stock descended 

 from recent immigrants and from immigrants of more remote years. 

 For the purpose of this study, institutions for the socially inadequate 

 are grouped as follows: (1) the feeble-minded (including the mentally 

 backward) ; (2) the insane (including the psychopathic and neurotic) ; 

 (3) the criminalistic (including the delinquent and wayward) ; (4) the 

 epileptic; (5) the inebriate (including drug habitues); (6) the diseased 

 (including the tuberculous, syphilitic, and leprous) ; (7) the blind 

 (including those with greatly impaired vision) ; (8) the deaf (including 

 those with greatly impaired hearing) ; (9) the deformed (including rup- 

 tured and crippled); and (10) the dependent (including orphans, sol- 

 diers, and old folks in "homes"). 



At the present time there are 720 such institutions in the United 

 States. The study is well under way. Preliminary reports have been 

 received from 370 institutions in 48 States, and pledges of cooperation 

 have been received from many more. If all goes well, this study 

 should be completed before July 1, 1922. It is expected that an 

 analysis of these data will measure, more accurately than has been 

 done heretofore, the relative stabilities and specific inborn social 

 values and handicaps of recent immigrants of various nationalities 

 compared with the older American stocks. 



An examination of the preliminary data supplied by the first 370 

 institutions which responded to the requests for data gave the nativity 

 ratios as shown in table 12. 



The Socially iNAOECiUATE. 



A survey of actual State administrative and institutional practice 

 and needs in reference to the classifications of the socially inadequate 

 classes has been made by Dr. Laughlin and published in the American 

 Journal of Sociology for July 1921. It was found that a systematic 

 classification of the socially inadequate classes is as necessary in the 

 scientific study of society as the scheme of classification usually followed 



