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arrive each year could be thus checked for ten years, the pres- 

 ent existing tenement house problem would solve itself. The 

 terrible congestion of the tenements would be relieved; the 

 scale of wages for the sweat shop worker would be elevated, 

 and the general sanitary conditions of life in such districts as 

 the lower east side, New York city, could be improved suffi- 

 ciently to reduce the menace to the public health from this 

 cause to a minimum. 



