Excerpt from Cost of Living in American Towns: Report of an Enquiry by the Board of Trade Into Working Class Rents, Housing and Retail Prices The present enquiry is the fifth of a series undertaken by the Board of Trade into working-class conditions of life in the more important industrial towns of various countries, and particularly into wages and hours of labour, rents and housing conditions, retail prices of food and the expenditure of working-class families on food. The following Reports have been already published, viz., for the United Kingdom (cd. 3864) in 1908 for Germany (cd. 4032) in the same year; for France (cd. 4512) in 1909 and for Belgium (cd. 5065) in 1910. The main object of the foreign enquiries has been in all cases identical, namely, to obtain a collection of data comparable with those contained in the Report on the Cost of Living of the Working Classes in the United Kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.