Show OVERCROWDING IN CITIES Deplorable conditions as to the housing of ot people are known to exist in the th crowded countries of Europe and Asia That such conditions also exist In the United States has been made m de clear by the discoveries of ot the census enumerators in the eastern cities For instance one rater at Passaic N J r found a house in which persons lived by day and night Under one roof That was bad enough but another In Inthe inthe inthe the same city found a worse case of overcrowding The second building shelters twelve families numbering with their board boarders ers era souls and all either eithe infants or day workers so that they all sleep there ther at night whereas in the first named house there were never more than sleeping at the same time The average number of ot occupants to each room is S 8 19 including the kitchen There is no space for beds and the inmates sleep in straw Dur During DurIng During ing the daytime the straw Js is heaped in a corner comer like Uke in a 3 stable In both cases the human beings thus herded together are foreigners r Owing to the enormous the big cities on the tho Atlantic A coast ast are becoming too populous tOt for health h alth althor or comfort The death rate is abnor abnormally abnormally mally man high in the tenement districts and the survivors in many m cases cases are ere mere wrecks wre of men mon end and women women At the present rate bf f progress the cities of or the north Atlantic coast will soon sCon be lace Taca to face with a serious problem the housing of the poor In Inmany Inmany Inmany many places it Is being discussed at atthe atthe the Ute present time |