Excerpt from The Working Girls of Boston The population of the city of Boston, according to the Tenth United States Census, in 1880, was of this number were males and were females. The whole number of persons engaged in that year in all occupations was the males numbering and the females out of this latter number of females employed in all occupa tions, there were, in round numbers, employed in occupations other than domestic service, and these constitute the body of the working girls of Boston. To ascertain all the conditions surrounding this large and important class has been the desire of the bureau for some years, but other lines of investigation have prevented the special study of this matter until last year, when a very thorough and searching investigation was commenced. The bureau under took to ascertain the moral, sanitary, physical, and economical conditions of the Working girls of Boston. Of course it was not possible to get a complete personal history of every one of the involved, nor was it necessary, but if such personal history for at least could be obtained accurately, it would scientifically indicate the condition of the whole, and would answer every purpose of the investigation. To this end, dis creet agents were employed to secure by personal application at the homes of the working girls the information desired; the names of girls in various employments were obtained during the daytime, lists were prepared and given to the agents, whose duty it was to call in the evening at the places of resi dence of those designated. N O effort was made to select names, but parties were taken at random in all parts of the city, so that the 'information gathered should be thoroughly representative. 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.