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19
Trade or Occupation.
Ages.
Born in
Total.
15to20.
20to40.
40to60.
60&up.
London'country
Tradesmen, Shopkeepers,&c.
2
25
11
2
17
23
40
Carpenters and Joiners
4
24
8
2
9
29
38
Painters and Plasterers
5
33
14
—
29
23
52
Masons
1
6
3
—
4
6
10
Smiths
3
15
6
—
8
16
24
Coach & Cabmen, Grooms .
1
12
9
2
12
12
24
Carmen
1
11
2
—
5
9
14
Labourers
6
22
18
4
16
34
50
Tailors
2
10
2
—
4
10
14
Sweep (1) Seamen (3)
1
4
—
—
1
4
5
Clerks
6
6
1
—
6
7
13
Professions
–
3
1
1
2
3
5
Railway Officials& Servants.
5
65
13
—
17
66
83
Policemen, Postmen, &c.
—
16
1
—
1
16
17
Laundresses & Charwomen.
—
14
22
7
19
24
43
Dressmakers, Milliners and
Needlewomen
10
36
11
3
28
32
60
Domestic Servants
–
6
2
1
7
8
47
308
124
21
179
321
500
Carpenters, smiths and labourers are mostly
bred and trained in country places.
This confirms my statement in former reports,
that large numbers of men born in cities have
poor constitutions and deficient vital stanma, who
cannot cope with their competitors from the
country nor command the best labour markets of
the world. In the struggles of town-life, large
numbers are prematurely crushed out at early
periods of their existence.
In comparing outdoor with indoor occupations,
we find that only 15½ per cent. of the tailors are
over the age of 40, 25 per cent. of the dressmakers
and needlewomen ; whilst of coachmen,
cab drivers, grooms and labourers 50 per cent.
exceed that age ; thus showing that the danger
arising from exposure in all weathers, is not nearly
so great as that arising from deficient air, and
want of exercise in open air.