Mr.
Abraham Epstein, who has written a valuable pamphlet setting forth his researches in Pittsburgh, states that the migrants of that city do not generally imbibe and most of those who do, take beer only.[12] Out of four hundred and seventy persons to whom he propounded this question, two hundred and ten or forty-four per cent of them were total abstainers.
Seventy per cent of those having families do not drink at all.
With this congestion, however, have come serious difficulties.

Crowded conditions give rise to vice, crime and disease.

The prevalence of vice has not been the rule but tendencies, which better conditions in the South restrained from developing, have under these undesirable conditions been given an opportunity to grow.

There is, therefore, a tendency toward the crowding of dives, assembling on the corners of streets and the commission of petty offences which crowd them into the police courts.

One finds also sometimes a congestion in houses of dissipation and the carrying of concealed weapons.