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Houlth con:'litions are deplorable. Ovorcrmding and · inariGcJ_

uato diets help push the tub8rculosis doo.th ro.te up 33 porcent lüghcr tha..,,'}. the alrcady high ro.te in Pu.Jrto Rico. Pa.rasitic dise2,Bes, comI!'.on on tho isJ.2.nd, are carriod to Eew York whero th0y co;1tfoue to sap the strcmgth of tho miJro.nt a.nd hampor his abili ty to adapt to new circt.,.rnst�nccs.

}To one knows how r,nny Pt.n:i.'to ilic2.ns there o.re in Now York City. Esti-:iates ra.ngc from J :íO, 000 to 350,000. The L1tt.-:,r figure is most o:í:'t.an used in newspap0r n.rticles. Tho only official fif_;l.1ros refer to Pt.10:i.�to :-1.ico.ns born in Puerto Rico. The 1940 cernms fou.11d 69,603 in lfow York City of uhom 61,L�63 wero white and 8,JJ+O non-white. CM_ldr8n born in the United Sta.tes wcre not counted a.n:l thor0 aro no data on which to make even a ro.1,3"h cstimate of their munber. Tho Census Burcau is b0ing :cecuested to inclu·lo this -1.ata. in its 1950 collection. So much has boen written en thc lfow Yor:: situJ.tion roc:::mtly that it is felt thnt these fow rr::m.:.�rlrn on i t are sufficifmt.

Tho Puerto J.ican-born popt.ü,:,.tior.. of Yow York Ci ty wns 554 in 1910, a.nd 7, 361,,. in 1920. (Tablo :;,:vrn). Tho 1930 dnta. wore not pubJ.ishod.

in Twenty the city yoars 2.gc i t HC<.s f �rosidcd ::..n Hc.rlom. ;: still holds. rl that 70 pcrcont of the Puorto Rico.ns It j_s probable th2.t thc _orccnta.ge

Th0 ,second lnrE;•)St concontr.:i.tion of Puerto Ricans on thc contincnt is in San Francisco. The 1910, 1 20 and 'L�O figuns ,,1cre �13, 474, and 603, rospectively. 1'10 othor city coJ1es clos•.: to having the sume number. Oakland I s 194 in 1940 shóuld -,e o.ddod to -¡·,he metropoli tan ci ty I s total since i t is virt"1.1.ally thc: se.lile a:reu.

Thc Hawaiio.n ·ocrni tmont unr.:l.oubtedly accounts for this colony, for the a2 in Los Angeles and for 594 rural i:.wollers in the sto.·ce of Cnl:l.f'ornia. San Fr.::ncisco for years was tbo milin point of c:-.lbarcatior.. for Hr.nmii. Somo migrants prob3.b1y decicled to sta.y thero and rüfuncd to se.il for tho i:Jlands.