TABLE 200.-Per cent of households paying each specified rent general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) per [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.] The amount of rent paid per month for each person, as shown by the above table, is under $4 in 96 per cent of all the households, while 90.2 per cent of all the households pay less than $3, 73.2 per cent less than $2, and 21.8 per cent less than $1 a month for each person. It will be noted that the proportion of households paying each specified rental is considerably higher for those the heads of which were foreign-born than for those the heads of which were native-born of native father, 75.8 per cent of the former as against only 25.9 per cent of the latter having a monthly rent payment under $2 for each person. Of the foreign-born, the Ruthenian, households have the largest, and the Magyars the smallest proportion of households paying less than $2 rent for each person. of the Roumanian and Servian and more than 95 per cent of the Croatian, North Italian, and Polish households pay less than $3 monthly for each person. BOARDERS AND LODGERS. All The extent to which boarders and lodgers appear in the households of iron and steel workers is exhibited in the table next presented, which shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the number and percentage of households keeping boarders or lodgers. TABLE 201.-Number and per cent of households keeping boarders or lodgers, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only households keeping boarders or lodgers at the time schedule was taken. Boarders are persons who receive both board and lodging.] Of the 786 households investigated 53.7 per cent keep boarders or lodgers. This high proportion, however, is due almost entirely to the households of the foreign-born, in which the practice of keeping boaders or lodgers has been adopted in 56.9 per cent of the cases. Among employees native-born of native father boaders or lodgers are found in only 11.9 per cent of the households. Among the Bohemians and Moravians and the Irish the practice is even less common than among the households the heads of which are native-born of native father, boarders or lodgers being found in none of the households of the former race and in only 7.9 per cent of the Irish households. With the exception of the Bohemians and Moravians and the Irish, however, a very general tendency is noticed among the remaining races to keep boarders or lodgers. The proportion of households of which this is true ranges from 90.3 per cent among the Servians, closely followed by 89.3 per cent of the Roumanians, to 42.9 per cent of the Germans. The percentage of Slovak households keeping boarders or lodgers is 43.9 per cent, a proportion only slightly higher than that of the Germans. The table next submitted shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the average number of boarders or lodgers in each. household. The averages are computed (1) on the total number of households studied and (2) on the number of households having boarders or lodgers. TABLE 202.-Average number of boarders or lodgers per household, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only households keeping boarders or lodgers at the time the schedule was taken. Boarders are persons who receive both board and lodging.] The average number of boarders or lodgers for the total number of households investigated is 3.64. Considering only those households. keeping boarders or lodgers, the average number per household is 6.78. In the households of the foreign-born, on the contrary, the average number per household is 3.89 on the basis of the total number of households, or 6.84 based only on the households keeping boarders or lodgers. Of the several races, the average number of boarders or lodgers in Roumanian households is 12, based on the total number of households, and for the households keeping boarders or lodgers, 13.44. The households of the Servians, Croatians, Germans, and Ruthenians also average a larger number of boarders or lodgers than that for the total group of foreign-born. It should be noted, too, that the average number of boarders or lodgers per German household is decidedly smaller than the average number per household of that race keeping boarders or lodgers. No boarders or lodgers are found in the Bohemian and Moravian and Hebrew households and only a comparatively small number in the Irish and Welsh households. SIZE OF APARTMENTS OCCUPIED. The range in size of apartments occupied by the households of iron and steel workers is exhibited by the following table, which shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the per cent of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms: TABLE 203.-Per cent of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.] Throughout the whole scale of apartments specified by the preceding table it appears that the native-born races occupy larger apartments than do those of foreign birth. None of the households the heads of which were native-born live in apartments of less than three rooms, while more than 15 per cent of the foreign-born are so housed. Over 24 per cent of the native-born are occupying apartments of seven rooms or more, as against less than 5 per cent for the households the heads of which were foreign-born. Of the foreign-born, no Bohemian and Moravian, Irish, South Italian, nor North Italian households occupy one-room apartments. Less than 5 per cent of the Croatian, Polish, Slovak, and Magyar households, and between 5 and 10 per cent of the Servian, Ruthenian, German, and Roumanian households live in one room each. More Slovaks occupy two-room apartments than any other race. With 45 per cent of their households living in three-room apartments, the Bohemians and Moravians not only have much the highest percentage among the races, but more of their own numbers live in this size of apartment than in any other. Greater numbers of households of all races, excepting the Bohemian and Moravian, Irish and Roumanian, occupy apartments of four rooms than of any other size. Over 50 per cent of the Poles are so housed, while the percentage is only slightly less for Magyars, Croatians, and Servians. The South Italian and Bohemian and Moravian households have 40 per cent or over each in apartments of four rooms, and are closely followed by the Ruthenians, North Italians, and Slovaks, whose percentages are under that figure. Those races with less than 30 per cent of their households in four-room apartments include the Irish, Roumanian, and German. At the head of the list of those occupying five-room apartments are the Roumanians with 26.8 per cent, which is a greater proportion for that race than is found in any other column. Thirty-one and six-tenths of the Irish live in six-room apartments. No other race has as high as 20 per cent living in such apartments. The Germans and the Roumanians have over 17 per cent of their households living in apartments of seven rooms or more. The Irish have 10.5 per cent and the South and North Italians and Croatians have less than 5 per cent each so housed, while the remaining races have no apartments of this size. SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED. The table next presented shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the percentage of households of each specified number of persons: TABLE 204.-Per cent of households of each specified number of persons, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.] In the foregoing table it is seen that from 10.1 per cent to 12.1 per cent of the households are composed of 3, 4, 5, or 6 persons each, 25.4 |