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HOUSE ACCOMMODATION.

Rooms per House. - Table IV. also shows the number of in-
habited houses in each town and village, and the number of rooms.
For the census of 1881 the information is complete. For the facts
regarding 1891 I am indebted to the kindness of the local regis-
trars, who have been most obliging in replying to inquiries so far
as the data in their possession enabled them to do so. The whole
statistics will not, however, be obtainable until the publication of
the Registrar-General's detailed Census Report some time in the
course of 1892. Meanwhile it may be noted that during the
decade between the two censuses a distinct improvement has
taken place in the amount of accommodation. In the first place,
the newer houses have more rooms than the older ones, and in the
second place, it may be assumed that the rooms are as a rule
larger, though the chief improvement here is more in height of
ceiling than in area.

Western District. - In Jamestown there were 2·29 rooms per house
in 1881, and 2·56 in 1891. In Bonhill town the figures were
2·22 and 2·35, and in Alexandria 2·12 and 2·74. For the parish
of Bonhill, as a whole, the improvement is from 2·34 in 1881 to
2·60 in 1891. The figures for 1891 for the rest of the Western
District will not be available till the Census Report is issued. But
in 1881 they were - for Renton, 2·00; Cardross, 2·54; Row, 5·01;
and Garelochhead, 4·77.

Eastern District. - For Cumbernauld parish I have not been
able to get the data on which to base a comparison confined to the
villages alone, but in the parish as a whole no improvement has
taken place in the number of rooms per house in the decade 1881-
91. In Kirkintilloch parish, the village of Twechar, which had
2·06 rooms per house in 1881, had 2·46 in 1891. But in Water-
side village the ratio fell from 2·12 to 2·05. In East Kilpatrick
parish, Bearsden - which is practically a residential suburb of
Glasgow - had 6·44 rooms per house in 1881 and 7·39 in 1891.
The other villages in the parish made a very considerable improve-
ment - from 1·99 to 2·94 - or practically from two rooms to three
rooms. In the West Kilpatrick villages the corresponding figures
are 2·41 and 2·60.

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