Though this figure is perhaps too low, the true proportion cannot be very large.

It is not the number, but the distribution and occupation of the foreign immigrants, that make them an object of so much solicitude.

The borough of Stepney contains no less than 40 per cent.

of the foreign- born population of London, the foreigners increasing from 15,998 in 1881 to 54,310 in 1901.

At present 182 out of every 1000 in this district are foreigners.