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areas persisted until 1951. The occupational section of the 1951 Census is not yet
published, but it is probable that the excess female population is due to women in
personal service in the hotels and boarding houses to which the large private houses
were converted in many instances. Similarly the excess of females in some other boroughs
—Chelsea, Holborn, Paddington, and St. Marylebone—is probably due to the many
hotels which are here situated. The City, Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Greenwich,
Poplar, Shoreditch, Southwark, Stepney, and Woolwich had high male ratios in each
census year.
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