The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-09
BAY State CENSUS.
Some Facts and Figures
About the Population.
Interesting Table Showing the
Size of Families.
Unoccupicd Dwellings In the State as Whole
In 1895 Numbered 3e7,o33.

Boston, Dec. 9-HOrace =. Waulln,
chief of the Massachusetts bureau
If statistics of labor, has issued part 4,
volume /, of the Massachusetts census
for 1885, dealing with population and
vital statistics. From this IL appears
that the total number OF families in the
state Is SAT ,3S5, the population is $500, 1888,
and the average size of a family, 451.
In 1875 the average size Of each family
for the state was AGO and in 1885 IL was
ASS. The average is largest in Suffolk
county, 4.79; the lowest is in Nantucket.
307.
The total of 547 1856 Is made up Of SAG, ,533
private families. 35i hotels. 30 penal and
reformatory institutions. 46 religious in
stitutions and associations. 201 public or
private charitable institutions 81 hospi
tails and asyiums. SO boarding schools,
academies, etc, 6S college Gormitories.
z government stations, and 26 camps"
the latter term being applied TO temper
ary settlements of Italian or other labor
ers employed on railroads or public
works, and living together in a single
community or camp.
There are 2l $40 families of one person
each, 91,7S6 families of two persons each,
LOG. 1856 families Of three persons each.
81. 152 families of four persons, after
V hich the figures show a constant de-
cine in number of families as the family
Increases in size.
One table is entirely novel; never hav-
ing been introduced into any previous
census. 1t shows the size Of families
ard composition of each family by sex
for the cities and for the state. The
2l,S36 families Of one person each in the
state are made up of 14.3SJ families
which contain only females, and 7456
which contain only males.
There are Il, ,064 families of two persons
each, this aggregate being composed of
II, ,709 families comprising two females
each. and 2355 families comprising two
males each.
The families of three persons each,
which are composed of one sex only
number 6545 including 5772 families COM
posed of three females. and 773 families
composed Of three males each
The 547,3S5 families i'm the state oc-
cupy 3,56S,3S5 rooms. The average num-
ber of rooms per family Is 6.52 The
average number of persons toa room is
20. Families of one persons each oc-
cupy on the average 437 roomg families
Of two persons each, $50 rooms, and
families OF three persons each, COG rooms.
The largest city (Boston) contains a
population of 1862 persons, occupying
In the aggregate 61S, ,59S rooms the aver
age number Of rooms TO each family be-
ing 5.99, and the average number of per-
sons TO a room so.
The total population in the cities, / $780,
l5i, occupies, in the aggregate, 2,150, ,345
rooms. the average number Of rooms to a
"a hi, u 81 Il
ber of persons to a room .7e. In the
towns the population is SCI, ,4l6, the total
number of rooms occupied being 1,41S,-
cf0, and the average number OF rooms oc-
cupied by each family 100. while the
average number of persons to a room is
.GI.
The occupied dwelling houses in the
state contained 1893, 9S5 rooms, OF these,
at the date OF the enumeration, 1868, 1856
were occupied and 125,60O unoccupied.
The rooms in the unoccupied dwelling
houses numbered 253,013, the total num-
Der Of rooms in occupied and unoccupieI
houses aggregating 1885, 1898. OF these
including occupied and unoccJpied
dwellings, there were 37S,6 rooms en-
ttrely occupied at the date of the
enumeration
The cities contained 366476 tenements;
found in 225.09S occupied dwelling houses
an average Of 1.6S per house, while the
towns contained 201,4S2 tenements:
found in 1888 houses an average Of
1.20 per house. In the state, as whole,
there were 573.95s tenements; found in
39T, 61S3 occupied houses, an average of
LA per house. In the cities 20,011 tene-
ments in occupied houses were entirely
unoccupied, or 5.46 per cent of the total
number of tenements in such houses. In
the towns 1852 unoccupied tenements
were found In occupied houses. or
216 per cent of the total number of tene-
| ments in such houses.
The unoccupied dwelling houses in
| 1895 in the state, as a whole, numbered
| S97, ,633, or $3.50 per cent Of the total num-
ber Of houses shown In the table; in 1885,
they numbered 310.24S, or 93.51 per cent
| %k thA.total number Of houses.