Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . AL AID, DENTISTRY.—BY INCOME. Income. $400 to $499. $500 to $599. $600 to $699. $700 to $799. $800 to $899. $900 to $999.$1000 to $1099.$1100 to $1199.$1200 to $1299.$1300 to $1399.$1400 and over, Total $400 to $599.$600 to $799.$800 to $899.$990 to $1099.$1100 and over Num-ber OFFami-lies. WithoutExpenditurefor Health. 1772 7973633i188814 39i 25151739448 46 418 7 125 131810 14101116 25257 16121013 Cases of Serious Illness. 5941474234*S9357 217 148842 4924 63535759585448 5038635o 55 565S5S5250 FreeMedicalAid. 6729303019531
Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . AL AID, DENTISTRY.—BY INCOME. Income. $400 to $499. $500 to $599. $600 to $699. $700 to $799. $800 to $899. $900 to $999.$1000 to $1099.$1100 to $1199.$1200 to $1299.$1300 to $1399.$1400 and over, Total $400 to $599.$600 to $799.$800 to $899.$990 to $1099.$1100 and over Num-ber OFFami-lies. WithoutExpenditurefor Health. 1772 7973633i188814 39i 25151739448 46 418 7 125 131810 14101116 25257 16121013 Cases of Serious Illness. 5941474234*S9357 217 148842 4924 63535759585448 5038635o 55 565S5S5250 FreeMedicalAid. 672930301953111 132 135930246 7541 40 384130161613137 34 52394126 13 I90 INSURANCE 7, INSURANCE. A majority of the families included in our tables report ex-penditure for insurance of persons, and nearly half report insuranceon property. (See Tables 96-99, pages 195-197). In exact figures,191 out of the 318 families with incomes between $600 and$1100, or 60 per cent., pay for life-insurance, and 143, or 45 percent., pay for insurance on property. The insurance on the lives. Diagram 15.—Number of families carrying insurance on persons, in each nationality-group. (See Table 97.) of persons is for the most part of the industrial type; that is,for a weekly payment of a fixed sum,—10 to 25 cents in mostcases,—an amount, determined by the age of the insured, is paidto the family after death. The amount of the policy is usuallyabout $100 for adults and $50 for children. The money receivedfrom the insurance company usually goes to pay the funeral ex-penses attendant on the death, so that it is more properlydescribed as burial-insurance than as life-insurance. A limitednumber of families, as will be seen later (page 233), do carry a 191 THE STANDARD OF LIVING real life or endowment policy of $500 or even more. Some 56cases are reported among the 318 families under general, however, the insurance is not a provision for a rainyday, but a provision for meeting a single continge
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