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Westminster comes next with 11,831 foreigners, forming 8.75 of
the total foreigners in London, and 6.46 per cent. of the population
of Westminster. The nationality of foreigners in Westminster is
shown in the above table; Italians, Germans, and French among
males, and French among females, take the lead.
The occupations of foreigners are given for London, but not for
the separate Municipal areas. An idea of the occupations likely
to be followed in Westminster may be obtained from the following
statement:—
Out of 20,519 males of Russian birth, 17,196 are returned as
engaged in occupations. Of this number, (3,595 are tailors, 2,158
bootmakers, and 1,602 cabinet-makers.
Of the 8,155 males of Russian-Polish birth, 6,968 are returned as
engaged in occupations, and of this number 3,475 are tailors.
Germany, with 15,902 males engaged in occupations, supplies
1,997 bread and biscuit makers and dealers, 1,577 servants (not
domestic) in hotels and eating-houses, 1,305 tailors, 1,303 commercial
clerks, and 1,115 hairdressers.
France, with 4,522 males engaged in occupations, furnishes 684
cooks (not domestic) and 391 commercial clerks.
Italy, with 7,494 males returned as engaged in occupations, comes
next to Germany, with 1,150 servants (not domestic) in hotels, &c.,
and next to France with 488 cooks (not domestic). The occupations
which Italians seem to have made specially their own are
two in number—1,037 are costermongers and hawkers, out of a total
of 1,753 foreigners pursuing that calling, and 325 are paviors, out
of a total of 340.
Sweden and Norway are remarkable as providing respectively
400 and 554 seamen.
The leading occupations of female foreigners are—domestic
indoor service, in which Germany stands first with 2,194, France
second with 1,205, and Switzerland third with 651; tailoring, in
which Russia leads with 1,814, Poland follows with 78!', and
Germany comes third with 406; dressmaking, engaged in which
there are 717 Frenchwomen, 355 Russians, and 207 Germans; and
teaching, in which France supplies 399 schoolmistresses, &c.,
Germany 352, and Switzerland 136.
Of minor occupations, Russia and Holland provide the great
majority of foreigners of both sexes engaged in tobacco manufacture;
the United States of America three-fifths of those returned as
"actors"; and Germany predominates in the trade in watches and
scientific instruments.