We had before us the other day in our committee a gentleman who had made a very extended study into w hat he calls the " socially inadequate." He divided them into 10 classes. namely: Feebleminded. insane. criminalistic. epileptic. inebriate. including drug addicts. diseased. blind. deaf. crippled. and dependent. including paupers and orphans. Then he took all the people of those classes who were in penal and reformatory institutions in th United States. natives as well as aliens. and he made a table showing the proportionate number which each alien group should have in each of these penal and reformatory institutions. based on the number of aliens of that nationality in the United States and their ratio to the total population. and it resulted in sone very interesting figures. For instance. the insane. all foreign born. show a proportion of 192 per cent. that is to say. nearly twice their proper proportion. their normal proportion. if they had the same ratio as all of the inhabitants of this country. All of the Balkan States together show 275 per cent. or nearly three times their normal proportion of criminals. Serbia and Bulgaria show 1.400 per cent. or fourteen times their normal proportion in our penal institutions. put there as punishment for crime.
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Generalization that foreign-born individuals are disproportionately represented in penal and reformatory institutions, particularly those from the Balkan States, Serbia, and Bulgaria.