aliens, as noticed in previous issues of the MONTHLY REVIEW,1 and a striking increase in the number of emigrant aliens departing from the United States. The table which follows shows this movement by races, while preliminary figures furnished by the bureau show that the number of aliens arriving at all ports during August and September was 61,311. Compared with similar data for the same months of 1913 (311,774) and same months of 1914 (102,625), a decrease of 80.3 and 40.3 per cent, respectively, is noticed. IMMIGRANT ALIENS ADMITTED TO, AND EMIGRANT ALIENS DEPARTING FROM, THE UNITED STATES DURING JULY AND AUGUST, 1914 AND 1915. The daily bulletin of October 22 of the Immigration Bureau gives preliminary figures as to the arrivals of aliens at all ports of the United States during the period August 1 to October 21, comparative as follows: 1913, 406,162; 1914, 132,386; 1915, 85,749. This is a decline in 1914 from 1913 for the period in question of 67.4 per cent, and in 1915 of 35.2 per cent from 1914, and of 78.9 per cent from 1913. The bureau also publishes a table which shows immigration by races for a period of 10 years, 1906 to 1915. This table, reproduced below, records permanent immigration only. In recent years there have been many temporary and nonimmigrant arrivals which, if added, would increase the totals since 1907 by approximately 20 per cent. ANNUAL MEETING OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. The annual meeting of the National Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions was held in Seattle September 30 to October 2, 1915. This association was organized "to bring into closer relation with one another the various boards and commissions administering compensation laws of the United States, and to effect so far as possible uniformity of legislation and administration of such laws and to encourage and give effect to all measures looking toward the prevention of accidents and the safeguarding of plants and machinery." Attendance at the meeting included representatives of 12 States and the Province of Ontario. A large part of the time of the meeting was devoted to the discussion of medical topics connected with the administration of workmen's compensation laws. Two sessions were devoted to the discussion of accident prevention. An important part of the program was the presentation of the report of a committee on statistics and compensation insurance cost, appointed at the Chicago meeting of January 12 and 13, 1915. The committee's report included a new classification of industries for the purpose of workmen's compensation insurance. The report was adopted unanimously, and is reproduced at the end of this article. The purpose of the committee was to work out a classification suitable for use in any of the States and thus promote the movement toward uniformity in statistical reports dealing with industrial accidents and workmen's compensation. The meeting unanimously voted to adopt the definition of a tabulatable accident as formulated and adopted at the conference on standardization of accident reports and tabulations held in Chicago October 12 and 13, 1914. This definition is as follows: "All accidents causing death, permanent disability, or loss of time other than the balance of the day, turn, or shift on which the accident occurred, shall be classified as tabulatable accidents, and the report of all such accidents to some State or national authority shall be required." The association elected as officers for the coming year, president, Floyd L. Daggett, chairman, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission; vice president, Wallace D. Yaple, chairman, Ohio Industrial Commission; secretary-treasurer, L. A. Tarrell, chief examiner, Wisconsin Industrial Commission. Columbus, Ohio, was selected as the next meeting place, the meeting to be held some time in April, 1916. The name of the association was changed from National to International in order to admit Canadian Provinces. Following is a list of those in attendance at the meeting: Will J. French, commissioner, California Industrial Accident Commission. John E. Kinnane, president, chairman, Michigan Industrial Accident Board. Dr. Raphael Lewy, chief medical examiner, New York Industrial Board. Carle Abrams, commissioner, Oregon Industrial Accident Commission. Dr. Frederick H. Thompson, chief medical adviser, Oregon Industrial Accident Robert W. Simonds, chairman, Vermont Industrial Accident Board. A. G. Anderson, auditor, Spokane District, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. T. H. Boyd, chief adjuster, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. A. S. Brown, auditor in charge, Seattle District, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. Floyd L. Daggett, chairman, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. A. B. Ernst, commissioner, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. P. Gilbert, secretary, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. R. J. Hoage, statistician, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. F. I. Mattingly, auditor, Tacoma District, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. Dr. J. W. Mowell, chief medical adviser, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. Clarence Parker, commissioner, Washington Industrial Insurance Commission. Dr. J. H. McCulloch, chief medical examiner to West Virginia commissioner. Lee Ott, commissioner, West Virginia compensation. L. A. Tarrell, chief examiner, Wisconsin Industrial Commission. F. M. Wilcox, member, Wisconsin Industrial Commission. Herman B. Gates, Wyoming, treasurer, ex-officio compensation commissioner. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STATISTICS AND COMPENSATION INSURANCE COST AND UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION OF INDUSTRIES. PART I. September 25, 1915. The committee on statistics and compensation insurance cost begs to submit the following report: At a meeting of the National Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions held at Chicago on January 12 and 13, 1915, the committee on statistics and compensation insurance cost was created, and the following were elected members: |