No. in Family Family Income Food Clothing and Household
ex. and carfare 		Rents Per Week Church Medicine Luxuries Insurance
4 $25.25 $4.67 $2.85 $3.25 .... $0.86 $0.20 ....
3 15.00 7.91 1.20 2.40 .... .50 .05 ....
4 18.00 10.98 8.66 2.50 .... .40 .... $0.45
3 28.50 6.38 9.29 2.50 $1.10 2.45 .30 ....
2 17.00 3.77 19.60 2.10 .... .... .... ....
3 18.00 10.25 4.05 2.00 .... .... .33 .72
3 21.00 7.35 .30 3.50 .... .... 2.10 ....
2 18.00 4.07 8.02 3.75 .... .25 .20 ....
5 23.10 12.78 6.24 2.75 .... .... 1.60 1.50
3 18.50 4.12 26.65 2.00 .... .... .... ....
2 15.00 8.43 1.24 4.25 .... .... .05 ....
2 16.50 9.51 .... 3.00 .... .... .20 .80
3 18.00 6.10 1.07 4.00 .... 1.00 .... ....
5 17.00 13.17 3.00 3.00 .... .05 1.75 .25
5 14.00 7.87 2.48 6.00 .60 .... .... .65

[Table number XXVIII] is a study of the budgets of fifteen migrant families for seven consecutive days. The income includes the earnings of both husband and wife. The figures on the expenditures are approximately correct, although it was possible that in some families there were no big food expenditures the first day, and in other families food might have been left over after the seventh day.

The wide variation in the expenditures of these families on all the necessary articles is significant, and is probably indicative and typical of the maladjusted life and the diversity of the living conditions of the migrants. The wide variety of food expenditures is due primarily to the inordinate expenditures for meat, which in one or two instances reached over eight dollars per week. This is typical of the lack of balance of the diet.

The few cases of disproportionate expenditures on household goods were made by migrants who had bought some furniture for their new quarters. It is interesting to note, however, that these families were compelled to skimp on their food, as their food bills are the lowest. Under luxuries we included all expenditures on tobacco, liquor, candy and the like. The few cases of considerable expenditures in this column are due largely to the liquor bills. The little use of these articles in most families is apparent from the table. The table as a whole, also, indicates the high cost of the living necessities of these migrants in Pittsburgh and their comparatively low wages.

TABLE NUMBER XXIX

Negro Families Under Care of the Associated Charities with Causes of Dependency During the Year Ending September 30, 1917.

1.Unemployed30
3.Child Labor1
4.Work shyness13
5.Disability through industrial accident2
6.Tuberculosis3
7.Other sickness34
8.Blindness or sight seriously impaired4
9.Other physical handicap1
10.Feeble mindedness2
11.Epilepsy 1
12.Insanity1
13.Other mental disease5
14.Old Age10
15.Death or burial9
16.Alcoholic intemperance17
17.Sexual irregularity18
18.Desertion or non-support36
19.Imprisonment6
20.Juvenile delinquency11
21.Abuse or neglect of children32
22.Debt7
23.Pauperized by unwise charity2
24.Hereditary pauperism1
25.Begging tendency 8
26.Illegitimacy 7
27.Domestic incompetency10
28.Illiteracy3
29.Domestic infelicity 1
30.Bad housing 25
31.Non-adjusted immigrant3
Total303

Schedule Used in Interviewing the Negro Migrants.

I (1) NAME(2) Present Address(3) SinceNo.
(4) Age(5) S. M. W.(6) Health
(7) Occupation(8) Employer(9) Hours Daily(10) Weekly Wage
(11) Kind of House(12) Rooms in House(13) Water Supply(14) Toilet
(15) No. in House(16) No. in Bedroom(17) No. Beds(18) No. Windows in Room
(19) How Does He(20) Leisure Time
Spend Money(a) Church
Weekly?(b) Saloon
(a) Room(c)
(b) Board
(c) or Family(21) Court Record
II (a) Former Address(c) Last Employer(d) Hours Daily
(b) Former Occupations(e) Weekly Wage
(f) Family
(age)
(g) Kind of Work		(h) Weekly
Wage
W. 2(i) Why Left Home?
Ch. 3(j) Who Paid Carfare Here?
Ch. 4(k) Will Family Come Here?
Ch. 5(l) When?
Ch. 6(m) Live Where
Ch. 7(n) When Will He Go Back
Ch. 8(o) Why?
Ch. 9
Total Income
SIGNATUREDATE