Immigration at Boston

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1871

Immigration at Boston.

THE Springfield Republican says that the general agent of the Board of State Charities, who is superintendent of alien passengers for the port of Boston, reports the number of immigrants arriving there in the year ending October 1, 1870, as 30,069—the largest number ever received there in one year. The greatest number from any one country came from Ireland, 11,321; 8,278 were English; 1,081 from Scotland, 144 from Wales, and 3,668 were from the British provinces; making a total of 24,492, or more than five-sixths of the whole from the British empire. From Germany came 3,481; from the Portuguese islands, 611; from Sweden, 581; from Italy, 271; France, 195; Holland, 149; Switzerland, 77; West Indies, 63; Poland, 49; Denmark, 31; Spain, 21; Africa, 21; Russia, 12; Belgium, 11; other countries, 8. The immigration from Germany has almost entirely ceased since the war.