County of London : area, houses and population also population classified by ages, condition as to marriage, occupations, birthplaces, and infrimities.

  • Great Britain. Census Office.
Date:
1902
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Credit: County of London : area, houses and population also population classified by ages, condition as to marriage, occupations, birthplaces, and infrimities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of Separate Occupiers or Families in the County of London is 1,019,546, and the number of Male Indoor Domestic Servants—not including those employed in Hotels, Lodging, and Eating Houses—is 15,425, and of Female, 234,398. Hence, the number of Male Servants to every 100 Families is 1°5, and the number of Female Servants 23:0. The proportions vary, in the different Metropolitan Boroughs, to a striking degree. In Bermondsey, Deptford, and Poplar, the Male Indoor Servants number 0:1 only to every 100 Families. In the City of Westminster the proportion is 12°5, in Chelsea 7:8, in St. Marylebone 5:3, and in, Kensington 5:1. Female Service varies in equal degree. Shoreditch with 5°5 and Bethnal Green with 5:6 Female Domestic Servants to each 100 Families, stand lowest; Bermondsey with 6:5, South- wark with 7:4, Finsbury with 7:8, Poplar with 8-0, and Stepney with 8°6 contrast with Hampstead having 79°8, Kensington 74:9, City of Westminster 53:3, and Chelsea 47-4, Taking Male and Female Servants together, Hampstead with 81:4 and Kensington with 80:0 for every 100 Families, stand highest. Of the 4,536,541 persons enumerated in the County of London, 3,016,580 were natives of London; 35,421 were born in Wales and Monmouth, being an increase of 4,129 since 1891 ; 56,605 in Scotland, an increase of 3,215 ; 60,211 in Ireland, a decrease of 6,254; and 38,350 in British Colonies or Dependencies. Persons of Foreign birth numbered 161,222, and of these 20,224 were British subjects, 5,621 were naturalized British subjects, and 135,377 were Foreigners; an increase in the case of the last-named of 40,324 since 1891. Of the 135,377 Foreigners 79,804 are Males, and 55,573 Females. Natives of Russia are now the most numerous, having increased since the last Census from 12,084 to 38,117 Germany stands second with 27,427, having, however, increased by no more than 507 persons since 1891. Russian Poland follows with 15,420, showing also only a trivial increase. France is fourth in importance with 11,264—no material increase; and Italy fifth with 10,889; or more than double the number returned in 1891. Foreigners are scattered throughout London, but a very large proportion, no less than 54,310, or 40 per cent. of the whole, are in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney [including Whitechapel, Mile End Old Town, and St. George in the East], of the population of which Borough they constitute 18-2 per cent. The following Metropolitan Boroughs, besides Stepney, contain each more than 5,000 foreigners :— 1. Westminster, ee of ne ALSO) 3. Holborn at ot] BIAS, 706 2. St. Pancras . ae Been Oy LOG 4. St. Marylebone ‘e a AO 500) The Married Foreigners number 65,666, the Unmarried 63,369, and the Widowed 6,342. The proportion of Foreigners under 15 years of age, viz., 9°8 per cent., is very small in comparison with the proportion of persons under that age in the general population, viz., 29°9 per cent. This may be largely accounted for by the fact that the children of foreign parents born in England are not abstracted as Foreigners. On the other hand, the proportions from 20 to 25 years, 17°4 per cent., and from 25 to 35 years, 28°8 per cent., are very much greater than the proportions in the general population, which are 10:5 and 17°8 per cent. respectively. Table 37B shows the occupations of persons of Foreign birth enumerated in the - County of London. Out of 20,519 Males of Russian birth, 17,196 are returned as engaged in occupations. Of this number, 6,595 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 occu- pations, and of this number 3,475 are Tailors. - Germany, with 15,902 Males engaged in RR Tes supplies 1,997 Bread ine Biscuit Makers and Dealers, 1,577 Servants (not Domestic) in Hotels and Eating Houses, 1,305 Tailors, 1,303 Commercial Clerks, and 1,115 Wigmakers or Hairdressers. . France, with 4,522 Males engaged in eae furnishes 684 Cooks (not Domes- tic) and 891 Commercial Clerks. Italy, with 7,494 Males returned as engaged in occupations, comes next to Germany with 1,150 Servants (not Domestic) in Hotels, etc., and next to France with 488 Cooks (mot Domestic). The occupations which Italians seem to have made specially their own PROPORTION oF DoMESTIC SERVANTS TO OCCUPIERS, TABLE 35A. BIRTHPLACES, TABLE 36. FOREIGNERS, COUNTRY OF TABLE 37. FOREIGNERS, CONDITION AS TO MARRIAGE, AND AGES, TABLE 37A. FOREIGNERS, OCCUPATIONS, MALES, TABLE 37B.