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INDIANA UNIVERSITY 



INDUSTRIAL STATUS. 



Occupation of chief breadwinner 



Wages Skilled or unskilled 



Day or night work 



Employed married women 



Details 



Children employed - 



Details 



Other members employed 



Home conditions of employed women 



Unemployment — Amount per year 



SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



Church membership 



Church attendance Sunday school 



Children at school Truancy 



Clubs Fraternal orders 



Labor organizations Means of recreation 



Child-helping agencies 



Charity received Drinking habits. 



Gambling Character of reading 



General moral status 



REMARKS. 



District Number Twelve. 



Our special investigation of housing and living conditions was 

 begun in the southwest part of Indianapolis. The district cov- 

 ered is bounded on the north by the Yandalia Kailroad tracks ; 

 on the east by Capitol AA^enue : on the south by Morris Street and 

 on the west by A¥hite River. No special characteristics set off 

 as a unit, separate from other parts of the city, the district within 

 the boundaries just named. The Indianapolis School Board has 

 arbitrarily made it into a school district, and for the purpose of 

 this investigation we chose the same territory. Even as a school 

 district the feeling of solidarity is not as great as it might be. 

 This is due to the fact that a large number of children go to 

 parochial schools instead of to those provided by the State. 



This is a district of homes. The inhabitants are mostly labor- 

 ing men, a large percentage of Avhora are native born whites. 

 Of those who come as immigrants from other countries, the 

 greater part are Irish and German. There are not over ten fam- 



