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TABLE 610.-Average rent per month, by general nativity and

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The Bulgarians in the above table show a low apartment and per person and a higher average the Magyars. The lower rent per person is indi gested conditions and a lower standard of living when it is recalled that the Bulgarian workers usually live in large rooming houses and in apart

rooms.

The following table shows the percentage of hou specified rent per month per apartment, by gener of head of household.

TABLE 611.-Per cent of households paying each specified rent by general nativity and race of head of house

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Of the 138 households studied in the preceding pay under $5; 69.6 per cent under $7.50; and 79.7 per month per apartment. Only 8.7 per cent pa leaving 91.3 per cent paying under this amount.

A larger proportion of households whose heads a of the households the heads of which are Magyars amount up to $10, while the reverse is true as reg amount above $10.

The table next presented exhibits the range in room, by showing, according to general nativity a household, the percentage of households paying per month per room.

-Per cent of households paying each specified rent per month per room, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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regoing table exhibits about the same proportion of both as and Magyars paying under $2 and under $3 per month per t a considerably larger percentage of the households of the n of the former which pay less than $4 per month per room. lowing table shows, by general nativity and race of head of 1, the percentage of households paying each specified rent h per person.

-Per cent of households paying each specified rent per month per person, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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the households whose heads were Magyars, as can be seen from eding table, pay under $3 per month per person, while nineay under $2 and one-fourth under $1. On the other hand, ed advantage in favor of the Bulgarians is indicated. Only seholds out of ninety-eight of this race studied, or 4.1 per he total, pay $3 or over per month per person, while a slightly proportion of Bulgarian than of Magyar households have a rent per person under $2, as well as less than $1.

BOARDERS AND LODGERS.

ables next presented exhibit the tendency among the immiouseholds to have boarders or lodgers. The first table sub

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TABLE 614.-Number and per cent of households keeping bog nativity and race of head of househol

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

[Information relating to boarders or lodgers covers only immediate time entire year. Boarders are persons who receive both boa

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Only 1 household out of a total of 100 whose is shown to have boarders or lodgers, as compa a total of 45 Magyar households, or 62.2 per c is not due to a relatively greater tendency of M garian households to have boarders or lodgers in this community which are unlike those in oth As a matter of fact, practically all the Bulgar resented in the table are boarding groups, and which is shown to have boarders or lodgers is household of the usual immigrant type. On t Magyar households are representative of conditi found in immigrant communities, and, although portion are found to have boarders or lodgers, stated above, the relative showing of the Magya better than that of the Bulgarians.

The following table shows the average num lodgers per households, based (1) on the total nu and (2) on the number of households keeping bos

TABLE 615.-Average number of boarders or lodgers per househol race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

Information relating to boarders or lodgers covers only immediate time of entire year. Boarders are persons who receive both board a

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eceding table shows that the 28 Magyar households keeping or lodgers have an average of 4.96 boarders or lodgers per d and 3.09 boarders or lodgers per household based on the nber of households. The one Bulgarian household keeping or lodgers has a total of 2 boarders or lodgers, or an average ased on the total number of households of this race. In this on it should be recalled that the prevailing method of living he Bulgarians in the community is that of the boarding nder which 4 to 16 males combine to form a household conon the boarding-boss system. Practically all of the 100 in households, therefore, in a strict definition of the term, are g groups.

SIZE OF APARTMENTS OCCUPIED.

ollowing table shows, by general nativity and race of head of ld, the percentage of households occupying apartments of ecified number of rooms.

6.-Per cent of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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preceding table clearly indicates that the Bulgarian households, le, occupy one or two room apartments, 46 per cent of the 100 olds studied having apartments of one room and 36 per cent ments of two rooms, while only 12 per cent of the total live in ments of four rooms. On the other hand, only 15.6 per cent of agyars live in apartments of one room and 37.8 per cent in nents of two rooms, while 24.4 per cent have four-room apartand 13.3 per cent five rooms. The large proportion of Bulgan one and two room apartments is due to the prevailing custom t race of living in boarding groups occupying one or two rooms, among the Magyars the characteristic feature is that of the

SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED.

e table next presented shows, by general nativity and race of of household, the percentage of households of each specified Der of persons.

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TABLE 617.-Per cent of households of each specified number of

and race of head of household.

(STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.)

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Of the households whose heads were Bulgari portion is seen to consist of five persons, as co more persons, the highest percentage shown for t eight per cent of the Bulgarian households are o than five persons, while 51.1 per cent of the Mag sist of six or more persons. The larger numbe Magyar households is not indicative of greater pared with the Bulgarian, for the reason that the as a rule, occupy apartments of a larger numbe representative of a more settled family life, whil has been stated, tend to live in boarding groups i

CONGESTION.

The table next presented shows, by general m head of household, the average number of pers per room, and per sleeping room.

TABLE 618.-Average number of persons per apartment, per rooz by general nativity and race of head of house

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The preceding table, as might be expected, shov number of persons in apartments occupied by M than in those of the Bulgarians, while the Bulgaria: a considerably higher average number of persons sleeping room, the conditions in all cases being tra that the Bulgarian system of living is that of th occupying a small apartment with a high avera room and per sleeping room as contrasted with the

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