Note 15 — Chapter IV

General merchandise is estimated by Mr. Mulhall at three hundred and forty-three million pounds. For every hundred inhabitants in the year 1877 there were five horses, twenty-eight cows, seventy-six sheep, and ten pigs. In 1881 there were in Great Britain five million four hundred and seventy-five thousand houses. The rent of eighty-seven per cent of these was under thirty pounds a year, and the rental of more than a half averaged only ten pounds. The total house-rental of Great Britain in that year was one hundred and fourteen million pounds; and the aggregate total of houses over thirty pounds annual value was sixty million pounds; though in point of number these houses were only thirteen per cent of the whole.