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It is unnecessary to discuss this Table, although it is full of
interest. It may, however, be stated that of the females over ten
years of age, who work in Finsbury, 61.7 per cent, are unmarried,
and 25.8 per cent, are married or widowed (which is the fifth
highest per centage in London). The total, 78,377, includes all
adult persons and also all children who are at work. It does not
include children at school or infants (roughly 23,000). It will be
seen that a very large proportion of the persons in the Borough
are engaged in unskilled or casual labour ( Vide Nos. iv., vi., xix.,
xxi., xxii.). If we include unspecified occupations, probably as
much as 50 per cent, are so employed. In section xxii. the total
of 28,669 is a large one. It includes 297 persons retired from
business, 56 pensioners, 477 "living on their own means" (what
is called "independent"), and 27,839 " without} specified occupation."
The largest per centage of occupied persons is found to be in
the class of those engaged in the conveyance of men and goods.
The Borough contains several of the great carrying firms such
as Messrs. Carter and Paterson, MacNamara, etc., who possess
large stables of 800 or 1,000 horses. The next most common
occupation in the Borough is in relation to printing, papers, or
stationery.
The following Table shows the various trades and occupations
carried on in workshops and Work-places in the Borough of
Finsbury which are now on the workshop register of this
Department :—