. Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men's Christian Association. A TYPICAL BEGGAR FAMILY. This family might report, as one actually did, an annual expenditure ofthirty cents fgr MOVING DAY, All the family possessions would hardly make a load for one ricksha. POVERTY AND PHILANTHROPY 271 The very poor of the city are living in 15,689 houses oran average of persons per house. This is somewhat smallerthan the average for the entire city, ; but would conditions under which the poor hav
. Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men's Christian Association. A TYPICAL BEGGAR FAMILY. This family might report, as one actually did, an annual expenditure ofthirty cents fgr MOVING DAY, All the family possessions would hardly make a load for one ricksha. POVERTY AND PHILANTHROPY 271 The very poor of the city are living in 15,689 houses oran average of persons per house. This is somewhat smallerthan the average for the entire city, ; but would conditions under which the poor have to live make for asmall family, both because of the higher death rate and becauseof the looser family ties that exist where want and need are everpresent. Prof. Dittmer found that as the family incomemcreased the average size of the family also increased.^ Then, too, the size of a mans income has a direct bearingon the size of his family. Prof. Dittmers study of a group ofChinese and Manchu families and our study of the churchfamilies show that, in any given group, as the income increasesthe average size of the family increases. This does not neces-sarily mean that there are more children, but simply that thetotal number in the family is larger. Under the Ch
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