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Rh The excess of families over dwellings in 1890, 1880, and 1850, both as regards number and per cent, is shown in the following brief table:



The statistics of dwellings and families already published show the classification by the number of persons and dwellings for the different States and by the United States as a whole. The following brief summary, however, by geographical divisions, is all that space will permit. This table shows the total number of persons to a dwelling, from 1 person to 11 and over:



The facts in the foregoing table, reduced to percentages and to a classification somewhat briefer than the foregoing summaries, give the following results: