[1] In order to ascertain the number of males and females, 14 years of age and over, the number of Jewish immigrants under 14 years of age were distributed equally between the sexes. Subtracting these respectively from the number of males and females, we obtain the above totals. Cf. _Report of New York State Commission on Immigration_, 1908, p. 171. TABLE LXII ILLITERACY OF EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS,[1] 1899 to 1910[2] ------------------------+---------------+--------------------------- | | Immigrant illiterates 14 | Immigrants 14 | years of age and over People | years of age +-------------+------------- | and over | Number | Per cent ------------------------+---------------+-------------+------------- Jewish | 806786 | 209507 | 26.0 Bohemian and Moravian | 79721 | 1322 | 1.7 Croatian and Slovenian | 320977 | 115785 | 36.1 English | 347458 | 3647 | 1.0 Finnish | 137916 | 1745 | 1.3 German | 625793 | 32236 | 5.2 Greek | 208608 | 55089 | 26.4 Irish | 416640 | 10721 | 2.6 Italian, North | 339301 | 38897 | 11.5 Italian, South | 1690376 | 911566 | 53.9 Lithuanian | 161441 | 79001 | 48.9 Magyar | 307082 | 35004 | 11.4 Polish | 861303 | 304675 | 35.4 Ruthenian | 140775 | 75165 | 53.4 Scandinavian | 530634 | 2221 | .4 Scotch | 115788 | 767 | .7 Slovak | 342583 | 82216 | 24.0 ------------------------+---------------+-------------+------------- Total[3] | 8398624 | 2238801 | 26.7 ------------------------+---------------+-------------+------------- [1] All peoples with an immigration below 100,000 excluded, except the Bohemian and Moravian. [2] From _Statistical Review of Immigration_, p. 51. [3] Total for all races. TABLE LXIII ILLITERACY OF "OLD" AND "NEW" IMMIGRATION (JEWISH EXCEPTED) AND OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION, 1899 TO 1909[1]