III. REPORT ON THE STATISTICS OF MUNICIPAL FINANCES (Public Document No. 79.) Containing statistics pertaining to the cost of municipal government in Massachusetts, enue, maintenance, interest payments, and municipal indebtedness. The first report was issued in September, 1908, and covers municipal fiscal years ending between Nov 30, 1906, and April 1, 1907. (Out of print.) The second report was issued in November, 1910, and covers municipal fiscal years ending between Nov. 30, 1907, and April 6, 1908. (Out of print.) The third report covers municipal fiscal years ending between November 30, 1908, and April 1, 1909. I be sent upon receipt of 9 cents to cover cost of mailing. The fourth report covers municipal fiscal years ending between November 30, 1909, and April 1, 1910. I be sent upon receipt of 11 cents to cover cost of mailing. IV. REPORT ON THE FREE EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. (Public Document No. 80.) Free employment offices are maintained under the jurisdiction of this Bureau in L Springfield, and Fall River. The annual reports contain numerous statistical tables and descriptive matter relati the work of the offices, and will be sent on receipt of 5 cents each to cover the cost of mi The reports are issued in January of each year, the first one covering the year ending Nove 30, 1907. V. THE LABOR BULLETIN. See under I. Report on the Statistics of Labor, on 3d page of cover. VI. THE MUNICIPAL BULLETIN. Containing matter relating to municipal affairs, especially finances, and intended to pi a sound and efficient administration of city and town government in Massachusetts. will be mailed upon receipt of the amount indicated to cover the cost of mailing. No. 1. January, 1910. A Uniform Classification of Municipal Receipts and Payments Prescribed Cities and Towns of Massachusetts as a Basis for a Standard System of Accounts and Reports (3 c.). No. 2. July, 1910. Recent Legislation relative to Town Finances and Municipal Accounts (1 c.) No. 3. January, 1911. The Issue and Certification of Town Notes Under the Provisions of Chapt of the Acts of 1910 (1 c.). No. 4. March, 1911. Outstanding Indebtedness of Certain Cities and Towns of Massachusetts which no Sinking Funds are being Accumulated or for the Extinguishment of which no Annual Pay Principal are being Made (2 c.). VII. SPECIAL REPORTS. Special reports will be mailed upon receipt of the amount indicated to cover the mailing. January 4, 1911. A Special Report on the Cost of Retirement Systems for State and County April 15, 1912. Report of a Special Investigation relative to the Indebtedness of the Cities and the Commonwealth (8 c.). March 5, 1913. Report of a Special Investigation relative to the Sinking Funds and Serial Loans o and Towns of the Commonwealth (2 c.). VIII. THE DECENNIAL CENSUS. The Decennial Census of the Commonwealth for 1905 was published complete ir umes; now out of print.. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts BUREAU OF STATISTICS CHARLES F. GETTEMY, Director THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS (Being Part I of the Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for 1912) APRIL 30, 1913 BOSTON WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING COMPANY STATE PRINTERS THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS. INTRODUCTION. This report consists of three parts, as follows: I. Immigrant Aliens Destined for and Emigrant Aliens Departed from Massachusetts, 1912.1 II. Immigrants in Cities and Industries. III. Foreign-born Population of Massachusetts, 1910. The first part of this report has reference to the changes in the population of the Commonwealth resulting from immigration and emigration during recent years and has been compiled from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner-General of Immigration; the second part is an abstract of the Report of the United States Immigration Commission, created by Act of Congress in 1907; while the third part is an abstract of the statistics of population of the Thirteenth United States Census (1910). The report of the United States Immigration Commission2 was recently issued in 42 volumes with a total of 30,000 pages, but the edition was so 'imited that it has seemed that a useful service would be rendered by this Bureau in making available for our own constituency the information for Massachusetts covered by this important inquiry. We have therefore prepared an abstract of several of the volumes so as to present in a compact form the principal facts ascertained by the Commission relative to the livng conditions and the economic status of that portion of the immigrant population of Boston and of other cities of Massachusetts which was under consideration by the Commission. The investigations of the Commission 1 Similar presentations of this nature for prior years have been published by this Bureau in Labor Bulletins Nos. 38 (December, 1905), 49 (May, 1907), 56 (January, 1908), 63 (Apr., 1909), 75 (August, 1910), 81 (May, 1911), and 90 (March, 1912). 2 Senate Documents Nos. 208, 282, 338, 633, 61st Congress 2d Session, and Nos. 662, 665, 747, 748, 749, 750, 753, '56, 758, 761, 764, and 785, 3d Session. • Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, a member of the Commission, and Mr. W. Jett Lauck, superintendent of field agents, prepared a book on the salient points of this report which was published under the title of "The Immigration Problem" by Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1912. Introduction. were of such wide range and exhaustiveness that considerable time was required in securing and compiling the statistical data, and although the field work was conducted principally in 1908 and 1909 the reports have been but recently published. The general housing conditions in the cities show but little change from year to year; a second investigation, even as late as 1912, would probably therefore have found the housing and living conditions practically the same as in 1908, although the exact location of the various immigrant colonies may have changed somewhat during the interval. |