Again. on the same page. the report contains another extract from page 22 of the same New York Board of Alienists. which reads as follows: For the first few years after the commencement of that remarkable migration of the races of southern and eastern Europe to this country (to which AustriaHungary. Italy. and Russia have contributed nearly 500.000 persons a year). it is noted that the increase of patients of those nationalities in the State hospitals was gradual. By 1905. however. it was possible to predict that when the effects of the " new Immigration " commenced to be felt the " old immigration" (of Germans. Irish. and Scandinavians) would be outdone in the numbers of insane added to the foreignborn population of our State hospitals. Today that prediction Is fulfilled. and during the year more than 55 per cent of the aliens deported by the United States Immigration Service were natives of those three countries.
Identified stereotypes
The paragraph suggests that immigrants from southern and eastern Europe are more likely to become insane and burden state hospitals compared to earlier immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia.