The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎26r] (56/244)

1892 PROSPECTS OF MARRIA 541
unmarried women at this age-period, leaving 18 unmarried women
to the remaining 24 married women. One-third of these beino-
domestic servants, if we subtract them, we have left in Kensington in
Classes Gf and H 36 unmarried women to 30 married women, and in
Hackney 12 unmarried women to 24 married women. It 'follows,
therefore, that in Kensington, excluding domestic servants, more than
50 per cent, of the women between 35 and 45 in the servant-keeping
classes are unmarried, while in Hackney about 33 per cent, of the
same class are unmarried.
The servant-keeping classes, as I have described the groups that
Mr. Booth has called Classes G and H, include everyone with an income
of 150L a year or upwards, and, were statistics available, it might
perhaps be shown that the unmarried women are, to a large extent, the
daughters of clerks and professional men. The tradesman class do
not find it nearly so difficult to provide for their sons and set them up
in business as is the case in the salaried class; and it is an advantage
from an industrial point of view for tradesmen to have wives who can
help them in various ways. Emigration is probably more frequent
in the salaried class ; and where the sons are obliged to emigrate, it
frequently happens that the daughters have to work for their living.
In this class I believe the inequality of the sexes is greatest, and the
probability of marriage least. In this class, therefore, the importance
of an industrial training which shall enable women to earn a com
petency through all the active years of their life, which shall enable
them to remain efficient workers and to provide for old age, is greater
than in any other.
As my object is not to point out how marriageable women may
get married, but to show that a considerable number of women must
remain unmarried, a table showing the inequality of numbers of the
unmarried of both sexes in different districts in London is given.
The districts are arranged in the order of poverty as calculated in
1889 ; the figures are from the Census of 1881.
Unmarried
Holborn
St. George's-in-Ea;
Bethnal Green
St. Saviour's
St. Olave's .
Shored itch .
Whitechapel
Stepney
Greenwich .
Poplar .
Westminster
City .
Islington
St. Pancras .
Camberwell .
* The common lodging- y
Strand, and the Kuightsbridge barracks in St. George's, Ha&over'square^niry^help to'exrl^in
exceptions to the rule. * r i
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Women 35-45 to every 100 35-45.
st
73
50
83
81
75
100
36
50
137
50
86
116
165
135
200
Wandsworth
Marylebone .
St. Giles'
Mile End Old Town
Lambeth
Woolwich .
Fulham
Chelsea
Strand ....
Kensington .
Hackney
St. George's, Hanover Square
Lewisham .
Hampstead .
191
212
86*
115
151)
57*
200
143
66*
378
230
175*
325
366
houses in St. Giles', the Woolwich Arspnal Tr^o ^ -r , ,