BOARDERS AND LODGERS. The following table shows the number and percentage of households keeping boarders or lodgers, by general nativity and race of head of household: TABLE 445.-Number and per cent of households keeping boarders or lodgers, by genera 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.] In this locality information concerning 405 households was secured. Of this number, 51.9 per cent keep boarders or lodgers, the foreignborn reporting 60.9 per cent, as compared with 13.3 per cent of the native-born of foreign father and 20 per cent of the white persons native-born of native father. Among those households whose heads are foreign-born, the Servian, 94.7 per cent of whom keep boarders or lodgers, show a much larger proportion than do the Croatian households. The Croatian households in turn show a considerably larger proportion than do the Magyar Slovenian, South Italian, or German households, the last named reporting 53.3 per cent. In striking contrast with the above is the very small proportion, or 9.5 per cent, of the Irish households keeping boarders or lodgers. Of those households whose heads are native-born of foreign father, the Germans show a slightly larger proportion than do those households whose heads are white persons native-born of native father, but a very much smaller proportion than those households whose heads are foreign-born Germans. As between the Irish households whose heads are native-born of foreign father and foreign-born, the former show a smaller proportion than do the latter keeping boarders or lodgers, each showing a very small proportion. The following table shows the average number of boarders or lodgers per household, by general nativity and race of head of household. TABLE 446.-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 schedules and not the entire year. Boarders are persons who receive both board and lodging.] In this table of 405 households there are 210 keeping a total of 1,003 boarders or lodgers, averaging 4.78 boarders or lodgers to each of the 210 boarding houses, or making an average of 2.48 boarders or lodgers to every one of the total number of households. In the 325 foreign households reporting there is an average of 3 lodgers or boarders to each, or an average of 4.93 to every household keeping boarders or lodgers. In the 20 households whose heads were nativeborn of native father, however, there are but 4 households with a total of 6 boarders or lodgers for the whole, averaging 0.3 to each household. Of the foreign races but 3, the Irish, English, and South Italian, report 1 or less boarders or lodgers to a household. The first-named race reports the minimum average of any race of 0.1 per household, a slightly higher proportion of the English reporting the same, and the South Italians averaging 1 boarder or lodger to each household. The Slovenians, Germans, and Slovaks average slightly more than 2 boarders or lodgers to a household, the proportions ranging as high as 2.42 boarders or lodgers per household in the case of the Slovaks. The Magyars and Croatians average slightly less than 4 boarders or lodgers to each household, but the maximum boarding and lodging conditions are reached by the Servians and Bulgarians, the former averaging 6.16 and the latter 8.42 boarders or lodgers per household. Summarizing the reports of the races discussed, the minimum proportion of boarders or lodgers is the 0.1 reported by the Irish and the maximum of 8.42 by the Bulgarians, the native-born of native father averaging 0.3 boarders or lodgers to a household. But 7 races, all foreign, present sufficient numbers to make computations possible in the forming of averages in the households keeping boarders or lodgers. The Bulgarians again present the maximum proportion, and as every Bulgarian household reports boarders or lodgers, the proportion, 8.42, remains the same. Four races, the Germans, Croatians, Magyars, and Servians, report more than 4 boarders or lodgers to each household keeping them, the proportions ranging, in the order given, from 4.25 to 6.50 boarders or lodgers per boarding household. The Slovenians show a slightly lower average and the South Italians presenting the minimum average of 1.84 boarders or lodgers for each household keeping boarders or lodgers. SIZE OF APARTMENTS OCCUPIED. The table next presented shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the percentage of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms. TABLE 447.—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.] A larger proportion of the households investigated occupy apartments of 6 rooms than of any other size. Slightly smaller are the proportions of households occupying apartments of 5 rooms and 7 rooms or more; 6.7 per cent occupy 4-room apartments, while the proportions occupying apartments of 1, 2, and 3 rooms combined constitute only 1.9 per cent of all households studied. Of the households of persons native-born of native father equally large proportions occupy 6 rooms and 7 or more rooms. Of the households of heads native-born of foreign father a larger proportion occupy apartments of 6 rooms than any other size; a considerably smaller proportion occupy less than 6 rooms than any other class. The proportion of foreign-born households occupying apartments of 5 rooms is slightly larger than the proportion occupying apartments of either 6 rooms or 7 or more rooms. Among the Irish, 7 rooms or more is the most frequent size of apartment. The Slovenians, Croatians, and Germans most commonly occupy apartments of 6 rooms. The Magyars, Servians, and South Italians in the greater number of cases have 5 rooms. SIZE OF HOUSEHOLDS STUDIED. The following table shows the percentage of households of each specified number of persons by general nativity and race of head of household: TABLE 448.-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.] Per cent of households of each specified number of persons. General nativity and Total Average race of head household. of ber of of per house sons per holds. 10 or more. hold. A study of the 405 households from which the above table is compiled shows that 27.3 per cent consists of from 2 to 4 persons, 33.3 per cent of from 5 to 7 persons, 19.8 per cent of from 8 to 9 persons, and 19.5 per cent of 10 or more persons. Households whose heads were native-born of native father and native-born of foreign father exhibit a large proportion of small households, while the greater proportion of households whose heads were foreign-born are com posed of a large number of persons. The households whose heads were native-born of foreign father have the highest percentage of small households, 74.9 per cent having from 2 to 5 members and 25.1 per cent 6 or more members. Households whose heads were nativeborn of native father follow with 65 per cent made up of from 2 to 5 persons and 35 per cent of 6 or more persons, while the foreign-born show only 29.5 per cent having from 2 to 5 persons per household and 70.6 per cent of households of 6 or more persons. Households whose heads were foreign-born show 23.4 per cent made up of 10 or more persons, as compared with only 5 per cent of native-born of native father and 3.3 per cent of native-born of foreign father. Of the households whose heads were native-born of foreign father the Irish show the largest proportion of small households, 82.6 per cent being composed of from 2 to 5 persons and 17.3 per cent of 6 or more persons. Germans show 75 per cent of households of from 2 to 5 persons and 25 per cent of 6 or more persons per household. Among the foreign-born races the Irish show by far the greatest proportion of households composed of from 2 to 5 persons, followed by Germans, Magyars, Slovenians, South Italians, Servians, and Croatians. Servians show a very large proportion of households composed of 10 or more persons, followed by Magyars, with a much smaller percentage. Slovenians, Croatians, Germans, South Italians, and Irish follow in the order mentioned, the last-named race showing only 9.5 per cent of households of 10 or more persons. CONGESTION. The following table shows the average number of persons per apartment, per room, and per sleeping room, by general nativity and race of head of household:" TABLE 449.-Average number of persons per apartment, per room, and per sleeping room, by general nativity and race of head of household. |