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the whole population of the Parish); 5,537 tworoom,
with 19,589 inhabitants (16.63 percent.);
4,858 three-room, with 19,009, (16.13 percent.) and
2,028 four-room, with 9,824 (8.34 percent.).
In the Sub-District of St. Mary there were 20,397
tenements in all, containing 84,159 inhabitants,
giving an average of 4.11 persons per tenement. In
the St. John's District there were 6,804 tenements
with an average of 4.95 persons per tenement. In
St. Mary's District, 49,030 persons inhabited tenements
of less than five rooms, equal to 58.2 percent,
of the population of the district, whilst in the St.
John's District, only 26.8 percent, of the population
were housed under the like circumstances, viz.: 9,060
persons out of a total of 33,687.
The inhabitants occupying one room only, constituted
9.6 percent, of the total population of the St.
Mary's District, and 4.5 of the St. John's. For the
two-room tenements the corresponding figures were
20.0 and 8.1; for three-room, 19.6 and 7.3; and for
four-room, 8.8 and 6.8, respectively. These figures
are in themselves striking evidence of the different
conditions of life, as a whole, prevailing in the two
districts, but the difference is shown yet more markedly
if the facts implied by these figures be set out
in another form, as is done in the next paragraph.
OVERCROWDING.
For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of
overcrowding existing, the Registrar-General, has