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Sect. 22.]
Occupations in the Seventh Ward.
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Occupations—Continued.

Occupations.

21-30 Years.

31-40 Years.

41 and over.

Unk. Age.

Total.

Politicians 1 1 2

Photographers 1 1 2

Plasterers 3 3

Printers 6 1 2 9

Proprietors—Hotels and restaurants 6 6 10 22

Express business 3 4 7 14

Printing office 3 2 4

Cigar store 1 6 7

Store, notions and fuel, 3 9 10 22

Grocery 1 1 2 4

Employment agency 1 1 1 3

Newspaper 1 1

Pool-room 2 1 3

Professions—Teachers 1 3 3 7

Lawyers 2 2 1 5

Physicians 2 1 3 6

Dentists 1 2 3

Policemen 5 5

Pilot 1 1

Prize fighter 1 1

Rubber workers 2 1 3

Roofer 1 1

Rag pickers 2 4 6

Real estate agents 1 2 3

Root doctors 1 1 2

Service—Domestic 288 161 123 10 582

Hotel and restaurants, etc. 205 126 72 11 414

Public waiters (with caterers) 9 15 13 1 38

Stewards 8 14 9 31

Students 13 4 17

Sailors 14 3 3 1 21

Sextons 1 1 2 4

Shoemakers 4 1 13 18

Stevedores 64 60 40 164

Stone-cutters 1 1 1 3

Tinsmith 1 1

Trainer (horses) 1 1

Tailors 1 3 4

Teamsters 63 38 32 1 134

Upholsterers 2 1 4 7

Undertakers 4 1 1 6

Watchmen 1 4 9 14

Wicker-worker 1 1

Let us now glance at the occupations as a whole: of the 9675 Negroes in the Seventh Ward, 1212 are children nine years of age or less. Of the remaining 8463 there are: