Fig. 1.—District 1. Italian tenements. Very congested and very poor.
District III, like District I, consists of three groups living in very similar environment to the two groups of the first district, but composed chiefly of Jewish race stock of various nationalities. The photograph for this district represents the area in the “West Side” near the Charles River Basin. The area in the “South End” is of similar type, while the area in East Boston is housed similarly to the Italian district in East Boston. The dwellings in both of these latter districts correspond to those shown in the second photograph of District II.
While the first three districts comprise tenement areas, some poor and the remainder very poor, Districts IV and V represent the middle class, and consist nearly entirely of “Duplex” and “Three-Decker” buildings. The first of these comprises 1,000 individuals of mixed race and nationality, the type broadly spoken of as American. The second consists of a Jewish population of 1,600.
Fig. 2.—District 2. Irish tenements. Congested and poor.
Fig. 3.—Another street in the Irish tenement district.
Fig. 4.—District 3. Jewish tenements. Very congested. Very poor.
