Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-30

work. Other wage earners. not pa
tients, lost SS2 weeks a total loss in
wages of $2S.sss.
The cost of 80 patients treated in
hospitals at public or private ex-
pense was $4,165: of 3sS patients
cared for at home, $21. 900 in doc
tors bills, nurses. ice. foods. medi-
cines; of rs funerals. $3,186. a
total cost of $58,262 in less than
half the cases of the six wards in one
| year-wards in which both income
and sickness expenses were at a mini
mum.
There were 40 wards in Rittsburg.
This has been going on 25 years. But
there were other even more serious
drains which do4not admit of tabula-
ton. A girl of %, who worked on
stogies, was left in very nervous
condition, not as strong as before, and
consequently could not attain her for
mer speed. A blacksmith will prob
ably never work at his trade with his
former strength. A sixteen-year-old
girl developed tuberculosis and was
left in weakened physical condition.
! A tailor cannot work as long hours as
before and was reduced $500 a week
in wages. A boy of eight was very
nervous. would not sit still il school
and was rapidly becoming truant. A
fmother developed a. case of pneu-
monia from over-exposure in caring
for children who had the fever, and
| has not been well since.
Such facts as these show the drain
that typhoid has been on the vital
forces of the communit. 1T has only
one of such drains.
According to the tenement house
census carried on by the Pittsburg
Bureau of Health the past summer,
there are 1854 tenement houses in
the greater city. Nearly SO per cent
of these are old dwellings,, built and
constructed to accommodate one fam
lily and ASA rule without convenience
for the multiple households now
crowded into them. In Painters rows
500 people are living under condi-
tions unbelievable and are all COM
PEELED to use water from single well.
When the United States Steel Cor
poration took owe rthe mill they reno
waited the entire equipment of the
plant, byt when they took over
FATHERS row they did nothing.
My second point is that this hap
Ehazard method of letting the housing
supply take care of itself is a none
tarx drawback to the merchants of
the! city" -
Mr.. Kellogg then turned to the So
cial machinery and pointed out some
of the things city should know of
itself, and said that the most effective
city administration cannot act to adj
| gantage unless the units through
which it operates are workable and
bear some relation to the function
they are designed to perform.
| Continuing he said Our work
began with a digest of the coroner's
records for. one year-July, 1906, to
June, 1902 There was usually evil
dence that showed not that response
bility could be. fixed solely on one or
the other agent Q in production. but
| that the man himself his fellow-work-
man, his foreman, or his employer
| Gas responsible for the construction
of the plant, tc.)-that one and all
of these had, contributed to the acct
dent. v
The next step was to visit the fami-
lies in their homes. The industrial
towns in Allegheny county are spread
over a wide area, the railway and
street car connections are not of the
best, and tenants are constantly shift
ing, and year has elapsed in some
cases. Half dozen races and tongues
were represented. 1t was no easy mat
ter to run down these cases, but it
was done in majority of them.
These visitors ELECTED the family's
version of the accident and secured
facts as to the mans wages number
of dependents, insurance, savings. any
payments by relief association, set
Elements by claim agents or through
tho courts, etc.
The third step was two-fold: First.
to. secure from company's operating
department it's statement of the acct
dent visits were paid to the mills in
company with technical men and a
consulting electric engineer whom we
called in as counsel on our staff).
The final step caem in analyzing
statistically the data thus gathered
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