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showing the number of families or separate occupiers, with the
number of domestic indoor servants (excluding those employed in
hotels, lodging- and eating-houses) in each Borough.
Taking the Metropolis as a whole, the proportion of domestic
servants of both sexes is rather less than one servant to four families.
The proportion to 100 separate families varies in the Metropolitan
Boroughs from ,V7 in Slioreditch and Bethmal Green to 65.8 in
Westminster, 80.0 in Kensington, and 81.4 in Hampstead.
Westminster heads the list with male indoor servants with 12.5
per cent., Chelsea coming next with 7.8 per cent. Female servants
are in greatest proportion—in Westminster 53.3 per cent., Kensington
74.9 per cent., and Hampstead 79.8 per cent. Unfortunately, similar
information is not available for Wards or Registration Districts.
Occupation.—The statistics relating to the occupations of persons,
over the age of 10, living in London and in the various Municipal
districts are also given in the Census Report; but, as the RegistrarGeneral
points out, they cannot be taken as showing the number of
persons employed in London, which is, in fact, only the heart or
working centre of a vastly larger area. At the census of 1891 the
proportion of the population engaged in occupation in London
was 82.8 per cent. in the case of males, and 38.4 in the case of
females. At the recent census the percentages were 83.6 and 37.4
respectively.
Among males there has been an increase of 116.4 per cent. (4,801
to 12,788) of persons engaged in the supply of electricity and
electrical apparatus, and of 148.1 per cent. of males employed in
connection with explosives (929 to 2,305). Actors have increased
by 75 per cent., while civil servants, clerks, journalists, servants,
railwaymen, builders, coachmen, and tailors have increased in
smaller ratios, varying from 9.4 to 36 per cent. On the other hand,
males engaged in silk manufacture have decreased 50.4 per cent.
(1,104 to 548), persons engaged on rivers and canals 20.9 per cent.
(17,941 to 14,185), boot and shoe makers 13 per cent. (31,462 to
27,377), shirtmakers 8.1 per cent. (3,196 to 2,936).
Among females, commercial or business clerks have increased by
181.1 per cent. (6,793 to 19,097) in the 10 years, civil servants by 77.6
(1,568 to 2,785), actresses by 74.9 per cent. (1,664 to 2,911), printers
by 73.6 per cent. (1,316 to 2,284), and other occupations to a
smaller extent. Artificial flower makers have decreased by 41.7 per
cent. (4,011 to 2,337), women employed in the boot and shoe trade
by 9.9 per cent. (7,527 to 6,779), and sempstresses by 2 per cent.
(107,848 to 105,678).
The occupations of persons over 10 years of age in the City of