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SIZE OF APARTMENTS OCCUPIED.

The range in the size of apartments occupied by the households is set forth in 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 53.-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.]

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From a study of 525 households the preceding table shows that 33.9 per cent occupy apartments of 4 rooms, 24 per cent occupy apartments of 3 rooms, 15.6 per cent occupy apartments of 5 rooms, and 12.4 per cent occupy apartments of 2 rooms, 14.1 per cent occupying apartments of 6 rooms or more. None of the households the heads of which are native-born of native father, as compared with 13.2 per cent of the households the heads of which are foreignborn, occupy apartments of 2 rooms. A larger proportion of the households the heads of which are foreign-born than of the households the heads of which are native-born of native father occupy apartments of 3 or 4 rooms, the reverse being true as regards the proportion occupying apartments of 5, 6, or 7 or more rooms. Considering the households whose heads are of each specified race it is seen that 19.8 per cent of those the heads of which are Irish occupy apartments of 6 rooms and 14.6 per cent occupy apartments of 7 or more rooms, as compared with less than 5 per cent of the households the heads of which are of each other given race. The households the heads of which are Ruthenians show the largest and the households the heads of which are Irish show the smallest proportion occupying apartments of 3 rooms, while the households the heads of which are Lithuanians show the largest and the households the heads of which are Ruthenians show the smallest proportion occupying apartments of 5 rooms, none of the households the heads of which are Ruthenians occupying apartments of more than 5 rooms.

SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED.

The following table exhibits the range in the size of households studied by showing according to general nativity and race of head of household the percentage of the households of each specified number of persons:

TABLE 54.-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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The above table shows that the average family in this locality has from three to six members; the average for foreign-born correspond very closely to the general averages. Those of native-born are quite different, the predominant numbers here being in the households having three and four members. Among the six races of the foreign-born enumerated the South Italians and the Irish have notably large percentages of families with 9, 10, or more members.

CONGESTION.

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

TABLE 55.-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 preceding table shows an average of 4.23 persons in apartments of 2 rooms, 5 persons in apartments of 3 rooms, 5.49 persons in apartments of 4 rooms, 5.93 persons in apartments of 5 rooms, 6.42 persons in apartments of 6 rooms, 7.23 persons in apartments of 7 rooms or more, and an average of 5.46 persons in apartments irrespective of number of rooms. The households the heads of which are nativeborn of foreign father show 6.10 persons per apartment as contrasted with 5.49 persons in apartments occupied by households the heads of which are foreign-born, and 4.52 persons in apartments occupied by households the heads of which are native-born whites of native father. The households the heads of which are Ruthenians show the highest average number of persons in apartments of 2 rooms, the households. the heads of which are Slovaks the highest average number of persons in apartments of 3 rooms, and households the heads of which are Magyars the highest average, which is 6.90 persons, in apartments with 4 rooms. The households the heads of which are Lithuanians show the highest average, which is 5.91 persons, in apartments with 5 rooms, while the households the heads of which are Irish show 6.63 persons in apartments of 6 rooms and 7.86 persons in apartments of 7 or more rooms. The households the heads of which are Magyars show an average of 7.18 persons per apartment, followed by the households the heads of which are Germans and Croatians with an average of over 6 persons per apartment, while the households the heads of which are of all other specified races, except the Lithuanian, show an average of over 5 persons per apartment. The households the heads of which are Lithuanians show an average of 4.81 persons per apartment.

In the table next presented the average number of persons per apartment, per room and per sleeping room, is shown according to general nativity and race of head of household.

TABLE 56.-Average number of persons per apartment, per room, and per sleeping room, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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In the 525 households studied, the average number of persons per apartment is 5.46; per room, 1.35, and per sleeping room, 2.41. When compared with the native-born of foreign father, the foreignborn show a larger average number of persons per room and per sleeping room and a smaller average number of persons per apartment. Of the foreign-born households studied, the Magyars show the largest average number of persons per apartment and the Croatians and Germans show comparatively large proportions. Each of the other races show an average of from five to six persons occupying each apartment, excepting the Lithuanians, showing less than four. The average number of persons per room in Ruthenian apartments is 1.86 as compared with less than one, or 0.98 person per room in apartments the heads of which are English. Each of the other races show an average of less than two persons per room. The Magyar households average 3.16 persons to each sleeping room. This is the highest average number shown by any race, and the smallest average number of persons per sleeping room is shown by the Germans, 2.04. None of the other races average less than two or more than three persons per sleeping room.

The table next submitted shows persons per room, by general nativity and race of head of household.

TABLE 57.-Persons per room, by general nativity and race of head of household.

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In the foregoing table is shown a report from 525 households, 80.8 per cent of whom have one or more persons, 24.6 per cent two or more persons, and 4.2 per cent three or more persons to each room, having a general average of 1.35 persons per room. The native-born of native father and the foreign-born, English, are the only groups whose average per room is less than one person. Both Irish and German households show only slightly over one person per room, while Lithuanians, Poles, South Italians, Croatians, Slovaks, Magyars, and Ruthenians average from 1.14 persons to 1.86 persons per room. All Ruthenian, over 95 per cent of Slovak, about 85 per cent of South Italian and Polish employees, over 70 per cent of Lithuanian, and less than 65 per cent of Irish households each report one or more persons per room. Of those households among the foreign-born having two or more persons per room, the Ruthenians, with over 56 per cent, show the highest figure, and the Irish, with slightly over 2 per cent, the lowest.

No Lithuanian and only 1 per cent of the Irish households appear to have as high as three or more persons per room, but the Ruthenians have over 10 per cent and the Poles over 5 per cent, while the Slovaks and South Italians each show under the last figure.

The table following exhibits the range in the number of persons per sleeping room, according to general nativity and race of head of households.

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