Excerpt from Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor, 1904, Vol. 53The issue for November, 1903, contained a summary of the results as to cost of living and retail prices of food, the subject of the Eighteenth Annual Report, down to the end of 1902. After the close of 1903 the figures for that year became available and are included in the report. Therefore, that the results for the entire period may be available, they are reproduced here, with the results of the investiga tion as to wages and hours of labor. An explanation is given of the Scope of the investigations and of the methods employed, and the results are here presented in the order of the publication of the reports.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.