PER CENT OF FOREIGN-BORN PAUPERS IN ALMSHOUSES BY COUNTRY OF BIRTH[289] ═══════════════════╤════════════════╤════════════════╤════════════════ │ │ │ COUNTRY OF BIRTH │ENUMERATED 1903,│ ADMITTED, 1904 │ PER CENT OF │ │ │ TOTAL │ │ │ FOREIGN-BORN │ │ │ POP. ───────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────── Ireland │ 46.4│ 41.2│ 15.6 Germany │ 23.3│ 18.4│ 25.8 England and Wales │ 8.7│ 8.8│ 9.0 Canada │ 4.8│ 6.5│ 11.4 Scandinavia │ 4.9│ 4.9│ 10.3 Scotland │ 2.5│ 2.6│ 2.3 Italy │ 1.0│ 3.1│ 4.7 France │ 1.4│ 1.3│ 1.0 Hungary and Bohemia│ 1.0│ 1.5│ 2.9 Russia and Poland │ 1.5│ 3.4│ 7.8 Other countries │ 4.5│ 8.3│ 9.2 │ —————│ —————│ ————— │ 100.0│ 100.0│ 100.0 ═══════════════════╧════════════════╧════════════════╧════════════════ Footnote 289: _Paupers in Almshouses_, pp. 19, 20. Taking these figures as they stand, we may say roughly that the Irish have thirty times as many paupers as those born in Russia and Poland, and forty-six times as many as the natives of Italy or Hungary and Bohemia, and twice as many as the Germans. But this evidently does not represent the relative tendencies to pauperism of these races. The first correction to be made is in regard to the relative numbers of each group in the total population. The Irish have 3.3 times as large a total population as the Italians, which reduces the ratio of relative tendency to pauperism down to about fourteen to one. By a similar reckoning we find that the Germans manifest only about one third the tendency to pauperism that the Irish do, but 4.2 times as great as the Italians. But before even approximately accurate figures for the relative tendencies of these races can be secured, a further correction must be made for the relative average length of residence of the different groups. This unfortunately cannot be done in the present state of our information.