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something will be said in a later chapter ; but one 

 noticeable example of the effect of a good system in 

 arresting the flow of emigration might be quoted from 

 Lincolnshire, where Lord Carrington had a thousand 

 acres of land split up for allotments for farm labourers 

 in so satisfactory a manner that it actually stopped 

 the progressing depopulation of the district. 



As to depopulation as affecting the cottage question, 

 illustrated facts and deductions can be obtained from 

 the census returns of 1891 and 1901 relating to nine 

 counties. We will take them in alphabetical order. 

 Whilst the population living more than two in a room in 

 Berkshire in 1891 was 11,396, being a percentage of 

 4*83 of the total population of that county, the numbers 

 fell in 1901 to 6118, or a percentage of 2-42 of the total 

 population ; the decrease in percentage in 1901, as com- 

 pared with 1891, being 2'4i. We will give figures for 

 the other illustrative counties in the same order. In 

 Cornwall the number in 1891 was 21,282, or 6'6o per cent, 

 of population ; in 1901 the number was 12,742, or 

 3-95 per cent, of population ; decrease, 2-65. In Hamp- 

 shire the number in 1891 was 18,339, or 2 '^5 P er cen ^ 

 of population ; in 1901 it was 13,040, or 1*63 per cent, of 

 population ; decrease, i'O2. In Lincolnshire, 20,384 in 

 1891, or 4-30 per cent. ; ten years after, 12,581, or 2*52 

 per cent. ; decrease, 178. In Norfolk, 28,020 in 1891, 

 or 5-98 per cent. ; 17,357 in 1901, or 3-64 per cent. ; 

 decrease in the ten years, 2-34. In Somerset, 20,067 in 

 1891, or 4*67 per cent. ; in 1901 it was 12,428, or 2*82 per 

 cent. ; decrease, 1-85 per cent. In Suffolk, 21,478 in 

 1891, or 5-93 per cent. ; in 1901 it was 12,912, or 3-46 

 per cent. ; decrease, 2-47 per cent. In Sussex in 1891, 

 population living more than two per room, 16,108; 

 percentage, 2*94 ; ten years after, 11,095 ; percentage, 

 1-84 ; decrease, no. In Westmorland in 1891, population 

 3229 ; percentage, 4.28 ; in 1901 ; population, 1804; per- 

 centage, 2*08 ; decrease, 2*20. Although the figures 



