The Kansas University Quarterly : $b Vol. I, No. 4, April 1893Various
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The Kansas University Quarterly : $b Vol. I, No. 4, April 1893
Various
Natural history -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
(_a_) Character of Home Life.
Positively bad 1,883 or 51.8 per cent.
Fair (only) 1,453 or 39.9
Good 300 or 8.3
(_b_) Duration of Home Life.
Left home previous to 10 years of age 187 or 5.2 per cent.
Left home between 10 and 14 years of age 226 or 6.2
Left home soon after 14 years of age 1,121 or 30.8
At home up to time of crime 2,192 or 57.8
NOTE.--As to the 1534 homeless:
Occupied furnished rooms in cities 390 or 25.4 per cent.
Lived in cheap boarding houses (itinerant) 280 or 18.2
Lived with employer 331 or 21.6
Rovers and tramps 533 or 34.8
EDUCATIONAL.
Without any education (illiterates) 710 or 19.5 per cent.
Simply read and write (with difficulty) 1,814 or 49.9
Ordinary common school 979 or 26.9
High school or more 133 or 3.7
INDUSTRIAL.[9]
Servants and clerks 1,041 or 28.6 per cent.
Common laborers 1,853 or 51.0
At mechanical work 649 or 17.8
Idlers 93 or 2.6
CHARACTER OF ASSOCIATIONS.
Positively bad 2,072 or 56.9 per cent.
Not good 1,439 or 39.6
Doubtful 64 or 1.8
Good 61 or 1.7
NOMINAL RELIGIOUS FAITH OR TRAINING.
Protestant 1,531 or 42.1 per cent.
Roman Catholic 1,667 or 45.8
Hebrew 207 or 5.7
None 231 or 6.4
[9] It should be stated that the above who claimed some occupation are,
as a rule, not regularly employed, nor steady reliable workmen.
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