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Boy I don't know; I just looked through three books randomly on my shelves and two out of three (both published in the 1990s, though written decades earlier) had some chapters where the last page only had one or two lines. One was a 1991 edition of 2001 A Space Odyssey on ROC Press, and the other was a 1996 reprint of Perelandra on Scribner. The third book was The Screwtape Letters on Oxford Press, and that one had no chapter end pages without a lot of printing on them.
It looks to me like even most of the big publishers don't seen concerned about how many lines are on a chapter's last page. Today is the first time I've ever heard of it. It's hard for me to believe anyone would think twice about it. What's the difference how many lines are on that page? Why would anyone care? I don't see how it would save paper costs.
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