I have reduced it to cubic feet so as to make the comparison. On the lowest passenger deck the increase is 50 per cent. on the other passenger decks it is 27 per cent. and in addition there Is the provision for the promenade space. which did not exist at all In our law. It was the unanimous opinion of the committee that this Is a very great improvement on any provision for immigrants that has ever been made in any of our navigation laws or passenger acts. It was also impossible to proceed under section 42. which changed the old passenger act and which proved. as far as the decks went. to be unworkable. and which owing to its arrangement of air space would have made great conflict among the ships. The effect of this enactment will be to reduce the number of immigrants now brought on the present number of ships afloat from 15 to 21 per cent. Of course they are very much more crowded in the Italian ships than they are in the German. and more crowded in the German and French than they are in the British and the American. � I believe that this is a measure of very great value for the best possible care of the immigrants. and that It will compel the companies which have not given them promenade space to follow the best type of the American and British ships.
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Generalization about crowding on Italian, German, and French ships compared to British and American ships.