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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Tenement Houses of the Citizens' Association of Chicago: Rooms; 35 Merchants Building To the Executive Committee of the Citizens' Association of Chicago. The undersigned Committee on Tenement Houses, to whom was referred the subject indicated by its name, beg to report that they commenced its examination from the starting point of last year's report, made by a committee of which a majority of our number were members. That was compiled after a thorough personal examination of the whole field, a task in which they had the aid of the City Health Department and the newspapers. The statistics with regard to the working population were authenticated by the best obtainable authorities and have been verified by subsequent research. We will, as briefly as possible, rehearse the salient points of that document, so as to render our subsequent remarks more intelligible. It sets forth the wretched condition of the tenements into which thousands of the workingmen are huddled, the wholesale violation of all rules for drainage, plumbing, light, ventilation and safety in case of fire or accident, the neglect of all laws of health, the horrible condition of sewers and outhouses, the filthy, dingy rooms into which they are crowded, the unwholesome character of their food, and the equally filthy nature of the neighboring streets, alleys and back lots, filled with decaying matter and stagnant pools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.