Part 6

+----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | |14 years.|15 years.|16 years.|17 years.|18 years.| | TRADES. +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | | A B | A B | A B | A B | A B | +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ |Manufacture-- | | | | | | | Textiles | 312 9·1| 343 10·3| 352 10·4| 357 10·6| 356 10·5| | Dress | 251 7·3| 383 11·5| 425 12·6| 414 12·3| 405 11·9| | Other | 234 6·7| 328 9·7| 366 10·7| 381 11·2| 386 11·3| | | | | | | | |Domestic, Hotel and | | | | | | |Restaurant Service-- | | | | | | | Private Indoor and | | | | | | | Other Domestic | 367 10·7| 598 17·8| 733 21·8| 810 24·1| 855 25·1| | Hotel and Restaurant,| | | | | | | etc., Service | 16 ·5| 35 1· | 57 1·7| 76 2·3| 93 2·7| | Commercial | 89 2·6| 168 5· | 225 6·7| 257 7·7| 275 8·1| | Other | 63 1·8| 78 2·3| 95 2·8| 125 3·7| 160 4·7| +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ |Total Occupied |1332 38·7|1933 57·6|2253 66·7|2420 71·9|2530 74·3| +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ |Total Unoccupied |2111 61·3|1424 42·4|1121 33·3| 946 28·1| 874 25·7| +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ |Total |3443 100 |3357 100 |3374 100 |3366 100 |3404 100 | +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+

TABLE II

Proportion per 1000 Girls engaged in Occupations in certain Districts, England and Wales, 1911

+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | | AGES. | | +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | |14 Years.|15 Years.|16 Years.|17 Years.|18 Years.| +------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ |England and Wales | 387 | 576 | 668 | 719 | 743 | | | | | | | | |Lancashire | 651 | 751 | 801 | 826 | 837 | | | | | | | | |Blackburn | 841 | 905 | 925 | 931 | 934 | |Burnley | 872 | 899 | 932 | 940 | 938 | |Oldham | 843 | 890 | 910 | 926 | 923 | |Preston | 784 | 887 | 906 | 930 | 916 | |Rochdale | 853 | 904 | 910 | 932 | 932 | | | | | | | | |London | 365 | 625 | 737 | 795 | 820 | | | | | | | | |Birmingham | 643 | 812 | 867 | 890 | 894 | |Bradford | 790 | 858 | 881 | 895 | 896 | |Leeds | 673 | 768 | 815 | 831 | 835 | |Sheffield | 435 | 595 | 660 | 699 | 714 | +------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+

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FOOTNOTES:

Adolescence, vol. i. 167.

Report on Physical Deterioration, 1904, p. 123.

Health and Physique of School Children, by Arthur Greenwood. P. S. King, London, 1913, 1s. net.

Labour Gazette, November 1917.

See The Present Position of the Juvenile Labour Problem, by Frederic Keeling, 1914, 2d.; compare the same author's Child Labour in the United Kingdom, P. S. King, 1914.

Starr, The Adolescent Period, p. 15.

Tarbell, New Ideals in Business, p. 211.

Starr, The Adolescent Period.

Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, Report, 1904.

A lap is a thick layer of cotton fibre wound on a roller in early stage of preparation.

See below, p. 33.

Cf. the evidence of the British Mission on the output of munitions in France in December 1915, who note the advantage to health accruing from the long dinner hour, generally one and a half hours, and often two hours. (Cd. 8187 of 1916, p. 7.)

"Lancashire Women as Cotton-Piecers," Englishwoman, June 1914.

Keeling, op. cit. p. 7.

Census, Summary Tables, p. 242.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Minor punctuation errors repaired.

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Footnote 11 "See below, p. 33." refers to footnote 12.