TABLE 57.-Number and per cent of households keeping boarders or lodgers, by general nativity and race of head of household.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[Information relating to boarders or lodgers covers only immediate time of taking schedule and not the entire year. Boarders are persons who receive both board and lodging.]

The foregoing table shows a report of 906 households, of whom 18.9 per cent keep boarders or lodgers.

Only a very small number of native-born of foreign father are reported, but a comparison between these and the foreign-born reveals many more of the latter keeping boarders or lodgers.

Leading all races in the proportion of households keeping boarders or lodgers comes the Lithuanian with 62.9 per cent; the next race is the Polish with 35 per cent. Then follow the South Italians, Hebrews, and Bohemians and Moravians, each having less than 20 per cent.

The following table shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the average number of boarders or lodgers per household. The averages are based (1) on the total number of households and (2) on the number having boarders or lodgers.

TABLE 58.-Average number of boarders or lodgers per household, by general nativity and race of head of household.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[Information relating to boarders or lodgers covers only immediate time of taking schedule and not the entire year. Boarders are persons who receive both board and lodging.]

Of a total of 906 households studied in the above table, 171 keep an average of 1.70 boarders or lodgers. Among the several foreignborn races, the Lithuanians have the highest and the Bohemians and Moravians the lowest average number of boarders or lodgers per household, as well as per household keeping boarders or lodgers.

SIZE OF APARTMENTS OCCUPIED

The range in the size of apartments occupied by the households studied is set forth in the table next presented. It shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the per cent of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms.

TABLE 59.--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.]

Of the total number of households, 32.8 per cent are in 3-room apartments; 31.9 per cent are in 4-room apartments. These figures are closely analogous to the proportion of foreign-born households in 3-room and 4-room apartments.

Of the households of native-born of foreign father, 44 per cent are in 6-room apartments; 20 per cent occupy 4 rooms.

Among the foreign-born the Poles most commonly occupy small apartments, 60 per cent having only 3 rooms. The Bohemians and Moravians, on the contrary, show 41.1 per cent of the households of that race in 6-room apartments.

SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED.

The table immediately following exhibits the range in the size of the households studied. It shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the per cent of households of each specified number of persons.

TABLE 60.-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.]

Of the 906 households studied in the above table, 19 per cent contain 5 persons each; 17.5 per cent, 13.4 per cent, and 7.7 per cent containing 4, 3, and 2 persons, respectively, and 16.2 per cent, 11.8 per cent, and 8.2 per cent containing 6, 7, and 8 persons, respectively. There are no households of 1 person, and only 3 per cent and 3.2 per cent are households of 9 and 10 or more persons, respectively. Comparing the households whose heads are native-born of foreign father with those whose heads are foreign-born, it is seen that the former shows a larger proportion of households of 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 persons, while the latter shows a larger proportion of households of 5, 6, 9 and 10 or more persons. Among the households whose heads are foreignborn, over 50 per cent of each contain less than 6 persons, the Lithuanians showing the largest proportion of households of 6 or more persons.

CONGESTION.

The extent to which crowding prevails in the households of the employees of the clothing manufacturing industry has already been indicated in the foregoing tables. In the series of tabulations following the degree of congestion and its effect upon living arrangements is more directly set forth.

The following table brings together the data of the preceding tables and shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the average number of persons in apartments of each specified number of rooms:

TABLE 61.-Average number of persons in apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household.

The average number of persons occupying 6-room apartments is 5.58, while the average for the 5-room apartment is 6.07 persons. In the 2-room apartments the average is 3.62 persons and in the apartments of 7 or more rooms, 6.35 persons. Only two races show a number of households sufficiently large for computation, who occupy 2-room apartments. The Hebrews have an average of 3.60 persons to each 2-room apartment and the South Italians 3.72 persons. In the 3-room households the Poles show an average 5.17 persons as compared with 4.52 persons in South Italian households and 5 persons in Lithuanian households of 3 rooms.

An average of slightly more than 6 persons occupy the 4-room apartments of the Lithuanian race, while the Bohemian and Moravian average only 4.9 persons to apartments of that size. The Hebrews and South Italians each show between 5 and 6 persons in the 4-room apartments. The Bohemians and Moravians show an average of between 5 and 6 persons, or 5.28, occupying 5-room apartments, while the Lithuanians show an average of 7 persons and the Hebrews 7.23 persons per apartment. The average number of Bohemians and Moravians in the 6-room apartments studied is 5.38 and of the Hebrews 7 persons.

The Bohemians and Moravians show an average of 5.89 persons in apartments of 7 rooms.