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ivpical of unskilled labor in gen- eral! e ! Foreign i -'lenients in the ward are the Irish, ilian and Bohemian, stated in the order of relative numerical strength. < )f those of foreign parentage about one-half

are American born. As to moral condition, neither the extremes of vice nor of virtue are reached, while the general moral tone is rather healthful. It is believed that so far as population and worldly condition can be held to affect the saloon problem the conditions of the nineteenth ward are typical of the problem in general. A careful study of the saloons in the ward has been made, of which this does not profess to be a report. It is merely a statement of impressions gathered in the course of the inves- tion ; the report itself belongs to a larger whole not yet com- pleted in details. The laboratory method was employed. The