Excerpt from The Slums of Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia: Prepared in Compliance With a Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States, Approved July 20, 1802 The investigation has been conducted relative to this number of peo ple in the four cities named for the sum appropriated in the resolution. The investigation, however, was, as intimated, a tentative one. To carry it Out to include the sixteen cities comprehended in, the resolu tion, with an estimated slum population of would probably cost from to Should Congress feel, therefore, that the investigation should be extended to cover the whole sixteen cities, and evenmore, an appropriation sufficient for the work of such inves tigation should be made. It is somewhat doubtful, however, whether the results would be commensurate with the expense - that is to say, _ it may be that the results of the present investigation are sufficiently indicative of all the conditions without any further study. 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.