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which takes place chiefly among the senior scholars and their teachers. 

 Nearly the whole of the Sunday school libraries contain a variety of 

 works of fiction, having, however, a religious object. There are 11 

 private circulating libi'aries, having 17j474 volumes, 8 of which, or '04f 

 per cent., are works in Theology and Ecclesiastical History ; 9 or '05 

 percent., Jurisprudence and Political Economy ; 220, or 1*26 per cent., 

 History and Biography ; 26, or '14 per cent., Arts, Sciences, and gene- 

 ral Literature ; and 17,211, or 98*51 per cent., Novels, Romances, and 

 works of imagination. 



On the condition of the Working Classes in the City of Bristol. {Report 

 of a Committee presented by C. B. Fripp, Esq.) 



The following is an Analysis of this Report : — 



Analysis of the Inquiry into the Condition of the Working Classes in the City of 

 Bristol. 



Number of Houses examined 3028 



Containing Families per ho. 1*97 ... 5981 



Consisting of Persons {?e? Jam. 3^46 }- 20717 



Heads of FamiUes with or without children : — 



Men ... Married, 3880 ; single or widowers, 703 4583") 



Women... Married, 3880; single or widows, 1398 5278^ 



Children... Boys, 5363; girls, 5493. (2-82 per fam.) 10856] 



20717 

 Nation— English, 5220; Irish, 501 ; Welsh, 170; Scotch, 15, 



French, 5 ; Italian, 6 ; Dutch, 5 ; German, 5 ; Prussian, 

 Swiss, 1 ; East and West Indian, 2 ; American, 1 ; : 

 ascertained, 48 J 5981 



Families having children, 3846 ; not having children, 2135. ... 5981 



occupying airy apartments 



apartments close and confined 



Families consisting of 5981 



Single persons (unmarried, widows, or widowers, 1163 ; two persons,"! 

 1298 ; three persons, 900 ; four persons, 792 ; five persons, 691; six [-5981 

 persons, 470 ; seven persons, 269 ; eight or more persons, 308. ... J 

 Families occupying part of a room only, 556 ; one room only, 2244 ; t^ol tqoi 



rooms only, 1439 ; three or more rooms, 1742. ... j 



Families ha\ing sufiicient cupboards or shelves, 3688 ; some, but deficient"! cqq, 

 1421; without any, 872 j-ayHl 



Families having religious books : Bible and Prayerbook only, or both, 3430 ; "I 

 having other books or tracts, or parts of some, 947 ; not having any books >-5981 

 or tracts (including 2 not ascertained) 1604 J 



Families ha\'ing prints of some kind on the walls, 3030 ; not having any, 2938 ; "I . „„ , 

 not ascertained, 13. ... ' / 



Families clean and respectable, 3610; dirty and disreputable, 1095 ; in con-"! kqq, 

 siderable distress, 660; condition not ascertained, 616. J 



Heads of Families depositors in savings' banks, or members of benefit"! 

 societies or trade clubs, 940 ; not depositors, nor belonging to any benefit \ 5981 

 society, &c. 4973 ; not ascertained, 68 J 



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