REPORT OF THE LABOR BUREAU.
 

Castle Garden,               >

New York,  January 27th,   1886. \

H. J. Jackson, Esq.,
 

Sir—The undersigned beg leave to present herewith the report of
the Labor Bureau for 1885.

Respectfully,

WILLIAM CONNOLLY,

Irish Emigrant Society.
L. P. REICHARD,

German Society.

I. Number of Immigrants Employed.

During the year employment was procured for 15,539 immigrants, of
whom 8,643 were males and 6,896 females.

Included in the foregoing were 222 families, comprising 612 persons.

II. Nativities of the Employed.

Males.             Females.

Irish.....................................

German......................................     5>49i

English, Scotch and Welsh...................

Scandinavians..............................

Swiss......................................

Russians and Poles........................

Hungarians and Bohemians..................

Hollanders and Belgians....................

French........................         ........

Italians....................................

Arabs.....................................
 

2,343
 

5,307
 

SA9^
 

1,024
 

230
 

361
 

104
 

69
 

169
 

12
 

154
 

42
 

83
 

60
 

18
 

.,
 

41
 

19
 

7
 

2
 

3
 


 

III, General  Character of the Employment Obtained.

Of the males 1,862 found employment in professional and mechanical
pursuits, and 6,781 at agricultural and common labor.

The females were, for the most part, engaged for domestic work, the
exceptions being 213 employed in the silk, woolen and cotton indus¬
tries.