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The Tables as given by the Registrar General are reproduced for
comparative purposes.
Fuller information as to the employment of our people will be
found at page 76, County of Essex Census, 1921.
It will be seen that Walthamstow has the largest percentage,
32.5 of occupied females, and Ilford the lowest, 29.2 as compared
with the County as a whole with 29.4.
The Registrar General notes that Walthamstow has the lowest
proportion of domestic servants of any of the area sgiven, followed
closely by West and East Ham; and like West Ham, Walthamstow
is the most industrial in type of those areas given. A larger proportion
of the people here is engaged in Scientific Instrument making,
Sewing, Tailoring, Celluloid and Brush making, than in the other
large Districts of the County.
Comparing 1911 with 1921, on the surface the masses seem to be
better clothed and better fed, and the physique of our School Children
has improved.
A noted contrast between the periods is the number of girls now
employed in clerical work—3,247 as against 750 in 1911.
HOSPITALS AND POOR-LAW RELIEF.
The Walthamstow, Wanstead and Leyton Children's and
General Hospital, containing 50 beds, situated in the Hoe Street
Ward is conveniently accessible to all the inhabitants.
At present considerable extensions are being carried out, and when
completed will make possible a much more efficient service to the
Public than heretofore.
A Casualty Ward, quarters for two Resident House Surgeons, a
Nurses' Home and New Ward Block of 40 beds are in course of
construction and will probably be functioning within the year.
During 1925 all cases sent from the School Clinics requiring
special treatment were readily admitted to the Hospital or were
dealt with in the Out-patients' Department.
The extent to which the Hospital has been used may be inferred
from the following