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Title: The Survey April-September 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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and, itwas found to be a community-wide housing problem, upon the crease is more than matched by that of dwellings. For therise in cost of labor and materials, the uncertainty of supplies,checked new building construction. One old house that hadbeen held at $5,000 was sold in the fall for $20,000. Four years ago Chester had a population of 40,000. To-day it has one estimated at 80,000. Yet, except that thestreets are more crowded, trolley cars packed to suffocationat rush hours and lines of jitneys doing a thriving trade, thetown, to a casual visitor, seems little changed. Except for thenew factories and the revitalized ship-yards there has beenlittle building. One hundred and fifty dwellings financedby the Sun Ship Building Company are completed; somemore expensive houses in a high-class residence district havebeen erected for sale to salaried officials; one or two smallgroups of dwellings have been built by other corporationsto hold their foremen and a few highly skilled employes—
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Gallaghers garage, transformed into a dormitory for the Chester Ship Building Company. There are 140 beds, abouthalf of them on the first and half on the second floor. The seven score occupants share six water closets and one urinal successful solution of which depends the effectiveness of oursecond line of defense. For we are beginning to see the neednot only of immediate production but of continued produc-tion, and Philadelphias mounting death rate, its increasinginfant mortality—best index of the effect of living conditions—are signs of a waste we cannot afford. In Chester the new life began to be felt. The new indus-tries just across the city line brought thousands of workmenwho needed houses. The old ship-yards, revived by govern-ment contracts, imported more workers. Express trains toWashington still roar through, but on the Pennsylvania rail-road there are fifty-six local trains daily between Chester andPhiladelphia, fourteen of which simply shuttle between thetwo cities, w

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