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Handout 7 - Family 9
Industrialization - Immigration
Condition:
Family numbers 5--parents and three children, all boys, aged one, three and five. Live in one room, for which they pay $4 per month rent. A very dirty and unhealthy place, everything perfectly filthy. There are about fifteen other families living in the same house. They buy the cheapest kind of meat from the neighboring slaughter houses and the children pick up fuel on the streets and rotten eatables from the commission houses. Children do not attend school. They are all ignorant in the full sense of the word. Father could not write his own name.
Food:
Cost of Living:
| Rent |
$48 |
| Fuel |
5 |
| Meat and groceries |
100 |
| Clothing, boots and shoes and dry goods |
15 |
| Sickness |
5 |
| TOTAL |
$173 |
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