Overcrowded
When a Family Lives in One Room
Photographer: Lewis Hine
#24


Typhoid appeared in a family which consisted of father, mother and five children, who managed ordinarily with a bed for the parents, a child's bed for the 8 year old girl, a two-third size bed for two daughters 18 and 16 years old and a cot for the boys of 14 and 10 years, one boy sleeping at each end.



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