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L0CAL TAXATION IN COPENHAGEN. 13 hånd, the decrease from 4*3 to 3'9 of the percentage of inhabited dwellings which were located in cellars, and on th© other by the decreasing proportion of dwellings consisting of one room only. This latter is shown by comparison with three preceding censuses. P roportions of T enements of D ifferent S izes in C openhagen . No. of Rooms in Tenement. 1895 1S90 1885 1880 1 ............................. 13-3 13-9 ‘ 15-0 16-8 2 ............................ 40-2 39-9 36-3 32-9 3 ............................. 167 167 16-8 | 31-3 4 ............................. 13-9 135 12-8 More than 4 ............................. 159 160 191 19-0 Since 1880 th© total number of tenements has increased by two-thirds. The number of two-roomed tenements has mean- while doubled, while the increase in one-roomed tenements has been only 30 per cent, and has been at a progressively slower rate in each inter-censal period. In comparison with th© 49’5 per cent of dwellings in the one-roomed class in Stockholm, the 44'0 of Berlin and the 37*1 of Christiania, Copenhagen’s 13*3 per cent is remarkably low. The extent of crowding in rooms which prevails in Copen­ hagen is capable of illustration from another point of view. Retums of 1895 show the proportion of persons to floor-area of inhabited dwellings in each quarter of th© town. The floor-area per inhabitant ranged from 482 square feet to 166 square feet in different districts; that is, roundly, from a room of 22 feet square to one of 13 feet square per person. The average was 254 square feet, or a room 16 feet square for each, approxi- mately. The worst crowding was in some of th© newer parts of th© city— the workmen’s quarters par excellence. Th© portion within the old line of ramparts averaged 312 square feet per head, or a little less than a room of 18 feet square. The rest of the city averaged about 225 square feet per head, or a room of 15 feet square for each, taking one with another. In view of considerations such as these, and especially in view of the faet that all the dwelling-houses in Manchester, big