THE CONDITIONS OF RURAL LIFE 



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Of 456 agricultural labourers' families 137 lived in a separate house 

 as proprietors and 288 as tenants, while 31 lodged in houses shared with 

 others. The percentage lodged in their their own houses was 30^per cent, 

 of the whole number (as against 5 per cent, in the case of the town workers) 



The following table. Table VI, classifies households according to the. 

 number of their members and the number of rooms in a dwelling. The 

 kitchen which in many of these households serv^es various purposes has been 

 counted as a room. An entrance hall, where such existed, has not been taken 

 into account. Eighty per cent, of the families of agricultural labourers 

 had dwellings having less then four rooms each, and 18 per cent, had 

 single-room dwellings. If it be admitted that overcrowding should be held 

 to exist wherever a dwelling contains more than two persons for each room, 

 37.7 per cent, of the lodgings of agricultural labourers will be found to be 

 overcrowded, and 1,118 or 52.2 per cent, of the 2,227 persons in the 456 

 households to be living in a condition of overcrowding. 



Table VI. Distribution of the families of agricultural labourers according 

 to the number of their members and of the rooms in which they are housed. 



Table VII gives for the households, classified according to the number 

 of their members, the average area of living rooms in relation toMwell- 

 ings, persons and personal units, and also the number of dwellings having 

 entrance-halls, their own closets, cellars, lofts and gardens. j^This table 

 proves that as the number of the members of a household increases there 

 is not much proportionate variation in the average area of the dwelling, 



