1.

TABLE XIII.—SICKNESS, BY SANITARY CONDITION OF HOUSES-Concluded.

OTHER CITIES-29 GROUPS.

[Three groups and three families are not included, as sanitary condition of houses was not reported.]

Good. Fair. Bad. Good. Fair. Bad. Good. Fair. Bad. 'Good. Fair. Bad.

30

16

21

46

TABLE XIV-SANITARY CONDITION OF HOUSES-Concluded.

Good. Fair. Bad. Good. Fair. Bad. Good. Fair. Bad. Good. Fair. Bad.

TABLE XV.-GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF HOUSES-Concluded.

BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.

The Ninth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor relating to building and loan associations embraced practically all active associations in the United States which were a year old or over, and gave very complete data concerning the various phases of their business for their respective fiscal years ending nearest to January 1, 1893. An effort has now been made to secure the most important facts regarding such associations for a more recent date, in order that a comparison with the report of four years ago might be made. Data have been secured from 14 States whose laws require returns from building and loan associations to be made to some State official. The effort to secure similar data from other States did not meet with success. In some of these latter cases their first reports were just being compiled; in others, reports were made to the proper State official but the data were either very incomplete or related only to associations located outside of the State doing business in the State, no report being required by law from associations located in the State; in others, no provision had been made by the State for compiling and printing the reports of individual associations received; and in still others, there were no legal requirements whatever as to reports from building and loan associations.

Tables 1, 2, and 3, following, embrace the data secured from the recent reports of the 14 States from which comparatively complete data were obtainable, and it seems fair to assume that these States are properly representative of the conditions for the whole country, inasmuch as they contain over 76 per cent of all the building and loan associations of the United States existing January 1, 1893, the facts for which were embodied in the Ninth Annual Report of the Department:

TABLE 1.-NUMBER AND VALUE OF SHARES OUTSTANDING OF ASSOCIATIONS IN 14 STATES, 1895-96.

TABLE 2.-ASSETS OF ASSOCIATIONS IN 14 STATES, 1895-96.

b This total, although $5,000 less than the sum of the items, is apparently correct.
e Not including amount for New Jersey not reported.

d See preceding notes.

TABLE 3.-LIABILITIES OF ASSOCIATIONS IN 14 STATES, 1895-96.