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XiOCAL TAXATION IN COPBNHAQBN. 11 the expression in thø English census retums. A kitchen as well as the dwelling-room was found also in 7,555 of the 10,887 one* roomed tenements, while 481 others had the use of a commoti kitchen. The inhabitamts of all one-roomed tenements are, however, returned' in one figure, so that the precise numbers dwelling in tenements of a single room in our sense of the word cannot be stated. In the following comparison the difference here indicated must be borne in mind, for these extra rooms are not taken into account in the calculation. T enements of F our R ooms or L ess having more than T wo P ersons to a R oom .

COPENHAGEN (1895).

M anchester (1891).

Number of Tenements.

Number of Tenements.

Number of Rooms.

Number of Inhabitants.

Avernge number per Room.

Number of Inhabitants.

Average number per Room.

1

3,239

487

13,023

4 '0

4-0

1,957

2

2,506

9,519

14,621

2-9

57,823

3-0

3

1,945

868

15,296

8,687

3 3

2-6

4

1,912

450

2 4

4,337

18,329

2-4

T otal ...

14,153

5,773

2'8

90,479

43,594

3 0

Feroen tage for tene­ ments of 4 rooms and less.

io -o

22-0

36-1

17-3

The number of inhabitants of tenements of less than five rooms was, in each case, about 250,000, inhabiting 57,463 tenements in Manchester and 68,575 tenements in Copenhagen. The overcrowding appears to be much greater in Copenhagen than in Manchester, but the apparent faet needs to be taken with the qualifications before noted, which would probably account for the greater part of the difference. " A point which must also not be lost sight of in comparing