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MR. A. W. FLUX, M.A., ON CITY GOVERNMENT AND

I nhabitants P er A cre , 1898.

COPENHAQEN.

MANCHESTER.

Entire Area................ 62 Inside the old line of ramparts (600 acres) 152

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42

Acres.

Hulme ................................. 150 ... 477 St. George’s ........................ 128 ... 498 Ancoats................................. 114 ... 400 Beswick................................. 114 ... 96

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Chorlton-on-Medlock ... Bradford ............................. Ardwick.................................

96

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81 ... 288

... 74 ... 509 Taking the whole of the former area of the City of Man­ chester, the estimated present population gives a density of nearly 84= per acre. What is clear is that the inhabitants of the barrack blocks of Copenhagen have more compensation in open spaces than have the dwellers in the crowded districts of Manchester. Warehouses and other business premises occupy a good deal of space in both cities, as is illustrated by the faet which the censuses of each show, that the central districts are losing in population to the suburbs. A previous table showed this for Manchester (see p. 7). In Copenhagen, the inner city referred to in the above table had about 108,000 inhabitants in 1885 (less by 6,000 than a quarter of a century earlier), but in 1895 it numbered only some 88,000, since which an inerease is estimated to have taken place. Besides the question of crowding as illustrated by the popu­ lation per acre, there is the further question of numbers per tenement or per room. From the census returns of 1891, it appears that Manchester had 103,720 tenements, which gives an average of 4‘87 persons to each. From returns of 1895, the then enumerated 82,715 tenements in Copenhagen averaged3'88 persons each. In this number of tenements are not included cases of lodgers with one or more separate rooms, so that the comparison is not vitiated on this head. The proportion of small tenements in Copenhagen is, however, mueh greater than in Manchester. In the former city the two-roomed tenement is the most frequently met with, though it should be remarked that these words imply a tenement having two rooms and a kitchen, whereas such an interpretation is not probably assignable to