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cruel hardship might result to any alien in a critical state of health,
should he be peremptorily ordered back to his own country. In one
brief debate, the reports of which are in the hands of all the powerful
agencies who encourage this tide of immigration for profit or
from motives of racial sympathy, the moral effect of the Act has
been destroyed, not so much by this or that new regulation or
memorandum as by the patent disloyalty of the Home Secretary
to the spirit of the provisions, which he has so manipulated as to
render the Act a dead letter. With a delicate irony he has asked
for a period of time during which he may watch the operation of
the Act. Given the regulations and the memorandum by which
immigration officers are effectually debarred from any kind of useful
action, there should be no difficulty in finding at the end of six
months' trial that the new law has entailed a vast expenditure with
a minimum or even a negative result.
BIRTHS IN SUB-DISTRICTS.
The number of Births registered in the three subdistricts
into which Bethnal Green is sub-divided is
shewn in the following table, while for purposes of
comparison the population of each sub-district,
estimated to the middle of the year 1905, is also
shewn.