Chicago Tribune - July 28, 1894
- This Article, from the Chicago Tribune in 1894, tells about the slums of many great american cities
- The U.S congress launched a full scale investigation of the populations of slum districts of metropolitan areas
- The cities that met the requirements of over 200,000 inhabitants were Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Washington D.C, Baltimore, and New Orleans
- There was believed to be at least 800,000 inhabitants of slum districts in these cities combined.
- Instead the Slum population was taken of only New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago
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Pittsburgh Daily Post - November 21, 1915
- In 1910 there were approximately 13,400,000 causes of sickness among the 33,500,000 people with gainful employment
- causing about $366,107,145 in lost wages from the people missing work due to sickness
- Workers are often exposed to the great health hazard of lead poisoning
- Almost every occupation had some sort of health hazard involved. They were extremely common
- The only reason that health hazards were overlooked so much, is because they rarely killed people
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| Boys play in the dirty street of a New York slum- 1905 |
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