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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, 617 per cent, are unmarried,
and 25 8 per cent, are married or widowed (which is the fifth
highest percentage 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 following Table shows the various trades and occupations
carried on in workshops and workplaces in the Borough of
Finsbury which are now on the workshop register of this
Department:—