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

the two cases is that connected with what may be called the lodger-question. The number of lodgers enumerated in Copen- hagen in 1895 was 18,828, or somewhat under 6 pér cent of the total population of dwelling-houses. These resided in 12,647 dwellings. Of lodgers in dwellings of four rooms or less there were 13,344 in 10,138 dwellings. The prevalence of lodgers in cottages in Manchester has been remarked upon by the Medical Officer of Health in recent quarterly reports. Between the middle of 1898 and the middle of 1899 these reports record 32,570 visits to cottages, and in 5,433 cases lodgers are reported as found. Doubtless a very large proportion of these visits are repeated visits, but the proportion of 1 in 6 of cases showing lodgers need not therefore be rejected as grossly misleading. No one of the four quarters showed any noteworthy deviation from this proportion. It cannot be doubted that,, in a city like Manchester, a large number of lodgers are found in houses having more than four rooms. As shown above, less than 5,500 such cases were recorded in Copenhagen. The faet is that in many cases where, in Manchester, one would seek lodgings, in a city like Copen­ hagen one would take a small tenement of one or two rooms, and probably arrange for board elsewhere, thus avoiding most of the difficulties which one seeks to avoid in taking lodgings. The contrast between the 3,694 inhabitants of one-roomed tene- ments in Manchester and the 9,121 so enumerated in Copenhagen, or, to take one-roomed tenements inhabited by one person only, the 497 of Manchester and 4,754 of Copenhagen may probably be assigned, in part, to the cause mentioned. The following statement may be added:—* A veuage N umber of P ersons pf . r T enement .

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Rooms in Tenoment.

2

.1

4

1-46 1-41

1-72 1-82

2-30 217

117 1-08

Manchester (1891) ................ Copenhagen (1895) ................

The improvement in housing conditions in Copenhagen is shown in two ways by the statistics of the census. On the one