The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎24v] (53/244)

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THE NINETEENTH CEN April
tliere is a high standard of comfort, the disproportion is correspond
ingly great. In a district where boy-and-girl marriages are very
common, everybody can be married and be more or less miserable
ever after; but in the upper middle class equality in numbers at
certain ages implies a surplus of marriageable women over marriage
able men. Nor do equal numbers at the same age imply equal
numbers in the same locality. Women's work and mens work can
not always be found in equal proportions in the same district; and
class habits may affect the stream of migration differently. The
daughters of working-men go out to service or emigrate, while the
daughters of well-to-do people stay at home ; while, on the other hand,
the percentage of sons of professional men who go to the colonies Oi
to India is probably much greater than the percentage of sons of
working-men. There is a probability, therefore, that the sexes will be
distributed unequally in different districts and also in different classes
of society.
Taking the Census returns for 1881, and comparing England and
Wales with London, we find that, whereas in the former there were
105 females to 100 males, in the latter there were 112 females to
100 males. Here at once we have a marked local difference, and if
we take special districts of London and compare them with each
other we shall find a greater disparity.
2881, — Number of Females 100
Kensing
ton
Hackney
Islington
L ONDON
St. Pan-
eras
Shore-
ditch
Bethnal
Green
White-
chapel
1
All ages
149-8
122-4
113-3
112-3
109-9
105-2
102-9
9Jf'3
1 Under 6 "1
99-9
102-0
97-9
999
97-2
102-3
99-1
108-6
years j
i 5-10
105-1
103-3
100-4
101-1
104-5
101-3
98-6
101-9
10-15
122-1
110-2
104-3
103-9
105-4
102-2
102-5
102-1
15-20
172-9
1450
123-4
114-7
107-3
98-3 1
98-1 1
100-0
j 20-25
195-9
142-3
1189
112-9
108-5
104-5
101-7
83-0
i 25-30
187-2
128-1
115-3
1107
109-4
1008
105-0
82-1
30-35
171-9
1200
111-9
114-5
108-1
102-7
102-5
82
35-45
152-2
X18'9
1X1-7
lll'S
110-3
104-8
101-5
89.4
1 45-55
153-6
125-1
120-4
117-0
118-3
111-6
110-8
! on
According to Mr. Charles Booth's classification in
Life," 1 Kensington has 30'4 per cent, of middle and upper class people
1 I have made no attempt to estimate the error introduced into the Census by-
falsehood.
2 For brevity I use the letters assigned by Mr. Booth to the various classes with
the signification he has attached to them, viz.:
Poor.
A. The lowest class of occasional labour- Eegular standard earnings.
ers, loafers, and semi-criminals. Higher-class labour.
Ji. Casual earnings. 6 r . Lower middle class.
C. Intermittent earnings. H. Upper middle class, &e.
J). Small regular earnings.