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cient and insufficient cottages respectively 

 varies widely in different parts of the country. 

 The counties in which the largest proportion 

 of councils reported a lack of cottages were 

 Norfolk, with 15 cases of insufficiency to one 

 of sufficiency, Devonshire with 12 cases to 

 none, Suffolk with 10 to none, Essex with 9 to 

 I, and Lincolnshire with 7 to i. On the other 

 hand, from Lancashire 10 reported sufficiency 

 against 2 insufficiency ; in Durham the 

 figures were 7 against 2, in the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire 10 against 8, in Leicestershire 6 

 against i. Here we see again a broad tend- 

 ency towards the same division that we 

 noted in regard to wages — on the one side the 

 predominantly arable counties with low 

 wages, on the other the predominantly grass 

 counties with high ones. The former suffer 

 most from inadequate housing, and this is 

 exactly what might be expected. The agri- 

 cultural population is thicker in the arable 

 counties, where more men are employed to 

 the acre. Thus the number of acres to each 

 man employed is 26 in Essex, 27 in Suffolk, 

 and 31 in Norfolk ; whereas it is 60 in the 

 West Riding, 67 in Derbyshire, 83 in Durham 

 and 97 in Northumberland. In contempla- 

 ting measures of reform having wages and 

 housing for their objects, the possibility must 

 be borne in mind that raising the former 

 counties to the level of the latter in these 



