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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 total number of
females (40,024) over ten years of age who resided in Finsbury,
16,593 were engaged in occupations; 10,769, or 6.17 per cent. of the
unmarried females, and 5,824, or 25.8 per cent. of the married or
widowed females were so employed (this latter percentage being the
fifth highest in London.) The total, 78,377, includes all
adult persons and also all children who were 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
were 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. were 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 the workshops and workplaces now on the Register:—