. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ted as a solution of sickness problems in California would be inadequate unless it involved some special provision fotuberculosis sufferers. In view of the common impression that tuberculosis in California itto a great extent, an imported problem and not a home problem,the commission thought it best to make a careful study of this aspect othe California tuberculosis situation. As Los Angeles County more tubercular immigrants than any other county of the stat(
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ted as a solution of sickness problems in California would be inadequate unless it involved some special provision fotuberculosis sufferers. In view of the common impression that tuberculosis in California itto a great extent, an imported problem and not a home problem,the commission thought it best to make a careful study of this aspect othe California tuberculosis situation. As Los Angeles County more tubercular immigrants than any other county of the stat(it was chosen for investigation. The reported cases involving wagearners and their families for 1913, 1914 and 1915 were analyzed froithe standpoint of length of residence in This analysis ishown in the following diagram: Table XXVII, at end of Section I. REPORT OF SOCIAL INSURANCE COMMISSION. 49 a u- o «-*-* • mm ed U a 09 • mm #0> a> 73 u £ a Li, ^3 (0 u tfi 0) 4> C C£ U V4-4 o 00 (0 bo c c CJ -J w i- 4) c V5 l- be (0 • ^ & *33 o 5* a fc- O) ^o 3 ^ «. — T3. 4-27626 50 REPORT OF social INSURANCE COMMISSION. It is safe to say that if more than 56 per cent of the Los Angelestuberculosis wage earners have been residents of the state for a periolof five years or more, the proportion of tubercular persons for the wholestate having such a length of residence is much greater. The very close margin of safety that the present increased cost ofliving leaves the families of poorer paid wage earners is emphasized byan analysis of the destitute families according to the number of bread-winners and dependents.* There was a time when the majority ofapplicants for charity were either from the very large families of atleast eight or ten, or families whose breadwinner was lacking. Evi-dently this time has passed, for of these destitute families applying forhelp, 75 per cent had three children of less, and only 8 per cent mthan six. In over 80 per cent of the f
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