it should also be noted that the quality of the housing which the captains and the majors – who of course lived in the Big Houses – had made available to the ‘other ranks’ was a further source of discontent, and one which bore heavily on Protestants. Some 32 per cent of all the houses in the statelet either had no piped water or no flush toilets. The rate of house building, some 6, 000 a year, was woefully inadequate either to deal with new demand or improve existing conditions.
