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west by Western avenue. This area includes what is known as the Twenty-ninth Ward. A conservative estimate of 300,000 is placed upon the population of the stock-yards police district. The residence district of the employees of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry, or the Twenty-ninth Ward, as defined above, contains at least 100,000 persons, and this population is chiefly of first and second generations of immigrants.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRY.

The slaughtering and meat-packing industry as it exists to-day was started in Chicago in 1875. For ten years prior to that time individuals were engaged in slaughtering live stock, especially cattle, but they had no means to protect the product, if held, The meats had to be placed on the market in the shortest possible time, and the methods then in vogue precluded the possibility of building up such a business as exists to-day. Since that time, methods and devices have been introduced which enable those engaged in the business to butcher and cure cattle, sheep, hogs, and other live stock as well in one season as in another without fear of loss, and has made possible the regular employment of a large body of men and women.

HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED.

In the course of the investigation in Chicago detailed information was secured from 359 households, the heads of which were engaged in the slaughtering and meat-packing industry. The following table shows the households studied according to general nativity and race of head of household:

TABLE 126.-Households studied, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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Of the total number of households studied in this locality, those in which the heads are native-born of native father and native-born of foreign father constitute only 7 per cent.

It will be noted that the Bohemian and Moravian households studied constitute a very much larger proportion of the total than do the households of any other race. The German and Polish households were studied in slightly larger proportions than the Swedish, Slovak, English, North Italian, and Irish households, and in considerably larger proportions than the households of any other race, each, however, constituting a very small proportion of the total number of households studied, as compared with the households of the Bohemians and Moravians.

MEMBERS OF HOUSEHOLDS FOR WHOM DETAILED INFORMATION WAS SECURED.

The following table shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, persons in households studied and persons for whom detailed information was secured:

TABLE 127.-Persons in households studied and persons for whom detailed information was secured, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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The table next presented shows the sex of persons for whom detailed information was secured according to general nativity and race of head of household:

TABLE 128.-Sex of persons for whom detailed information was secured, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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As regards the sex of the 1,614 persons for whom detailed information was secured in this locality, it will be noted that 52.2 per cent are males and 47.8 per cent females. The proportions of males and females of the foreign-born are identical with the proportions shown in the total, while of the native-born of foreign father and the nativeborn of native father a slightly larger proportion of the former are females and a considerably larger proportion of the latter are males. Among the foreign races the North Italians report a proportion of males in excess of females larger than is shown by any other race. With this exception, there is little difference in the proportions shown by the other foreign races, the proportions of males ranging from 54.3 per cent of the Magyars to 48.5 per cent of the Russians. Among these same races the females constitute a little over 50 per cent of the persons of only three races, the Russian, Irish, and Swedish.

A slightly larger proportion of Poles, native-born of foreign father, are females, while of the native whites the females constitute only 40.5 per cent, a proportion slightly smaller than that of the foreignborn Magyars.

The following table shows, by sex and general nativity and race of individual, the persons in the households studied for whom detailed information was secured:

TABLE 129.-Persons for whom detailed information was secured, by sex and general nativity and race of individual.

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Of a total of 1,614 individuals reporting detailed information in this locality, a larger proportion of both males and females are nativeborn of foreign parentage than either native-born of native parentage or foreign-born-a much larger proportion, however, being foreignborn than native-born of native parentage.

As regards the different races, the largest proportion of both the native-born of foreign parentage and the foreign-born males, as well as females, are Bohemians and Moravians, while the smallest proportion of the native-born of foreign parentage are Russians, and the smallest proportion of foreign-born are Canadians other than French.

EMPLOYEES FOR WHOM INFORMATION WAS SECURED.

The following table and chart show the male employees of each race for whom information was secured:

TABLE 130.-Male employees for whom information was secured, by general nativity and

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