CENSUS REPORT. – The Women of Great Britain. – There are 355,969 old maids (above 40 years of age) in Great Britain. There are 1,407,225 spinsters between 20 and 40, and 1,413,912 bachelors of the same age. In the list of the occupations of women, there are 88 authoresses, 18 editors or public writers, 643 actresses, 135 danseuses, 16 equestrians. Of the female domestics no less than 675,311 are entered under the denomination of “general servants.” Of the higher class servants, the housemaids are more numerous than the cooks, and the former being 55,935 and the latter only 48,306, and there are above 50,000 “housekeepers,” and nearly 40,000 nurses. The charwomen are no less then 55,423 in number.

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Relevant link: - Occupations: census returns for 1851, 1861 and 1871

 

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