Slavs and Hungarians spent from $8.50 to $10 on their
diet. In these camps, the typical cost of living for six
months was $48 for Italians, $72 for Slavs and Hungari-
ans, and for other nationalities $108. The average weekly
expenditure for nutrition of the Italians in Chicago
ranged from $.67}^ per individual in families of 7 persons
to $1.88}^ for men living alone. The average was $.82.*
Dr. Forman found households living in Washington at the
weekly rate of $.72 per man, the mean of 19 poor families
being $1.08.^ In Wisconsin, in 1904, 423 families spent an
average of $233.93, or 46 per cent of their incomes, for
subsistence — $55.44 per year per member, or a little over
a dollar a week.^ It is reported that some Western col-
leges, which have farms of their own, are able to furnish
board to their students at $.14 or $.15 per day. The free
lunch, often furnished by saloons, plays an important part
in the economy of many workingmen, and some women;
one Chicago saloon "gives" away from $30 to $40 worth

' Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1885.
' Yale Review, vol. v, p. 126.
' Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor, no. 72, p. 474, and no. 13, p. 725.
« lUd., no. 13, p. 725.
" Ibid., no. 64, p. 603.
• Wisconsin Bureau of Labor, Census, and Industrial Statistics, 1905-06.
