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(176), General dealers and Pawnbrokers 155 women. Of
all the women, at work, 624 were aged 65 years or
more : they were chiefly employed as charwomen, laundrywomen,
bookfolders, paper bag and cardboard box makers, tailoresses,
milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, and makers of artificial
flowers.
BIRTHS.—During 1913 there were registered 2,494 births of
Finsbury residents—equal to a birth-rate of 29.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
This is the lowest birth-rate since the borough was
formed. The number of births is also the lowest yet recorded.
The birth-rate for Finsbury still keeps higher than the birth-rate
for the whole of England and Wales, and does not fall to the same
appreciable extent.
The corrected rates for the Borough are appended:—