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TABLE 40.—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

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a Not computed, owing to small number involved.

The preceding table shows that 8.5 per cent of 504 households concerning which information was secured, occupy apartments of 2 rooms, 20.8 per cent occupy apartments of 3 rooms, 18.5 per cent apartments of 4 rooms, 23 per cent apartments of 5 rooms, 19.2 per cent apartments of 6 rooms, and 9.9 per cent apartments of 7 or more rooms. Households the heads of which are of foreign birth show a slightly higher per cent occupying apartments of 2, 3, and 4 rooms than is shown in the totals for all households studied. The per cent of households the heads of which are foreign-born show a slightly smaller per cent occupying apartments of 5, 6, or 7 or more rooms than that shown in the total. Of households the heads of which are of foreign birth those whose heads are Finns show a higher per cent in apartments of 2 rooms than is exhibited by households the heads of which are of other foreign-born races. No households the heads of which are French Canadians, English, Norwegians, Poles, or Swedes occupy apartments of this size. Households the heads of which are North Italians show by far the highest per cent occupying apartments of 3 rooms, while no households the heads of which are Irish, Swedes, or French Canadians, are in apartments of this number of rooms. The households the heads of which are Croatians show the highest per cent, in apartments of 4 rooms, no households the heads of which are Irish occupying apartments of this size. Households the heads of which are Poles show the highest per cent and households the heads of which are Finns the lowest per cent occupy ing apartments of 5 rooms. The households the heads of which are English show the highest per cent and the households the heads of which were North Italians the lowest per cent occupying apartments of 6 rooms, and households the heads of which are Swedes the highest per cent in apartments of 7 or more rooms, while no households the heads of which are English or Magyars occupy apartments of this size

SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED.

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

TABLE 41.-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.]

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Of the total number of households 14.3 per cent are composed of 3 persons; an equally large proportion have 5 persons. Households of 4, 6, 7, and 10 or more persons are also relatively frequent. Households of a comparatively large number of persons are most common among the Magyars and Poles. The former have 46.7 per cent of their households with 10 or more persons, and the Poles report 32.6 per cent of households having 10 or more persons. Among the Slovenians households composed of a small number of persons are general, 23.1 per cent having only 2 persons. Households composed 2 or 3 persons are also comparatively frequent among the Croatians, English, Finns, and North Italians.

CONGESTION.

The extent to which crowding prevails in the households of the employees of the copper mining and smelting industry is indicated in the preceding tables. The degree of congestion and its effects upon living arrangements is more directly set forth in the following series of tabulations. The first table presented, which follows, shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the average number of persons in apartments of each specified number of rooms.

TABLE 42.-Average number of persons in apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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The average number of persons per apartment increases steadily with the increase in the size of the apartment. Two-room apartments average 3.58 persons; apartments of 7 rooms or more, 7.0 persons. In each instance the average number of persons per apartment is greater than the number of rooms per apartment. Magyars, it should be noted, average 7.30 persons per 3-room apartment, a degree of crowding not approached by any other race.

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The following table shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the average number of persons per apartment, per room, and per sleeping room:

TABLE 43.-Average number of persons per apartment, per room and per sleeping rv, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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The average number of persons per apartment, per room, and per sleeping room is 5.93, 1.28, and 2.57, respectively, for 504 households studied. The number of persons per apartment, room, and sleeping room is considerably higher in the households, the heads of which are foreign-born than in those the heads of which are native-born of native father. Comparing the different households, the heads of which are foreign-born, it is seen that in every instance there are fewer persons per room and per sleeping room among the older immigrant races or the Swedish, Irish, Norwegian, English, German, and French Canadian, than among the more recent immigrant races. The table next presented shows the range in the number of persons per room, by general nativity and race of head of household:

TABLE 44.-Persons per room, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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Of the total number of households, 75.8 per cent have 1 or more persons per room, 17.5 per cent have 2 or more, and relatively small proportions have 3 or more or 4 or more persons per room. These figures for the total number of households closely reflect the persons per room in foreign-born households, all but 11 of the 504 being of that class. No race shows the greater proportion of households having less than 1 person per room. The smallest degree of crowding is among the English, Norwegians, and Swedish. Of the Magyars, 43.3 per cent have 3 or more persons per room; 73.3 per cent have 2 or more. The remaining races in the greater proportion of cases have less than 2 persons per room.

The range in number of persons per sleeping room is shown in the following table, according to general nativity and race of head of household:

TABLE 45.-Persons per sleeping room, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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Of the total number of households, 80.8 per cent, all but 11 being of the foreign-born group have 2 or more persons per sleeping room; 43.3 per cent have 3 or more persons per sleeping room. Decreasing proportions of households have larger numbers of persons per sleeping room, 3.2 per cent having 6 or more. group that shows the smaller proportion of their households having The Swedes are the only race 2 or more persons per sleeping room. ever, also have a comparatively small degree of crowding in their The Irish and English, howsleeping room, none of the households of either race having 4 or more persons per sleeping room. show the largest proportion of households having each specified The Magyars, on the other hand, number of persons per sleeping room, 100 per cent have 2 or more, 10 per cent having 6 or more. the sleeping rooms of the Magyars far outreaches that of any other In fact, the degree of crowding in specified race.

In the table following, which is the final table of the series, the effect of congestion within the household upon sleeping and living arrangements is set forth. The table shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the number and percentage of households regularly using for sleeping purposes all except each specified

number of rooms.

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