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Handout 7 - Family 1
Industrialization - Interpersonal
Condition:
Family numbers 5--parents and three children, all girls, aged one month, eighteen months and four years. Rent a house containing three rooms, for which they pay a rental of $8 per month. Family are very ignorant, dirty and unkempt. The street is narrow and filthy: no pavement: mud knee-deep: no vaults or sewerage. Father works fifty weeks per year, and for a winter day's work he is employed twelve hours, and in summer fourteen. He receives $1 for each day's labor. His house is situated so far from his place of work that he cannot go home at noon. Carries no life insurance and belongs to no unions.
Food:
Cost of Living:
| Rent |
$96 |
| Fuel |
15 |
| Meat and groceries |
165 |
| Clothing, boots, shoes and dry goods |
70 |
| Books, papers, etc. |
3 |
| Sickness |
40 |
| Sundries |
65 |
| TOTAL |
$454 |
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