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measures tending to diminish, in a considerable degree, the
volume of alien immigration. In substance, these two Commissioners
held, " That by a thorough and uniform administration
" of the existing law the object aimed at in the recommendation
" of preventing newly arrived aliens adding to the overcrowding
" conditions of a district already full would be obtained more
" effectively than by the method suggested of declaring certain
" areas to be prohibited. There would be the additional
" advantage that no novel or expensive machinery would be
" required beyond, what appears necessary, some addition to
" the number of inspectors."
Broadly, it may be said, that the alien question in Finsbury is not
of an urgent character at the present time.