[12]. A very few apartments were occupied by two families; hence the slightly greater number of families than of apartments covered.

[13]. See topographical map prepared for the National Board of Health in 1880 by Spielman & Brush. The only copy known to exist is in the Jersey City Public Library.

[14]. Very little overcrowding was found in apartments of more than four rooms.

[15]. John Wanamaker’s Store, of which Mr. Brewer is General Manager [Editor].

[16]. Vol. 1, No. 4. May, 1902.

[17]. See “The Government Factory Bill of 1900,” by Gertrude M. Tuckwell, the Honorary Secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League. Fortnightly Review for June, 1900.

[18]. Translated from the French by D. E. Martell, Ph. D., late Fellow in Romanic Languages, University of Pennsylvania.

[19]. Eighteen volumes published by the Minister of Industry and Labor (Brussels, 1900 and 1901). We draw the greater part of these references from “General Statement of Methods and Results of the Census” (Brussels, 1902), which this publication completes.

[20]. A penal law of May 28, 1888, relative to the protection of children employed in the itinerant professions, forbids the feats of strength and dangerous exercises, inhuman, or of a nature to affect the health of children and youths under eighteen, employed by those who carry on the profession of acrobats and mountebanks, etc.

[21]. There exists a special regulation which puts under authorization and special watchfulness those industrial establishments, which, by their nature, threaten the safety, health and convenience of the public, or offer certain dangers to the health and safety of the workmen who are employed there. These establishments are known as “Classified Establishments.”