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At work 6,610
In school 609
Housewives 568
Known criminals 116
Unoccupied, at home, defective, unknown, etc 560
8,463
The 6610 at work are distributed as follows:
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Professions 101
Working on own account 268
In trades 492
Clerks, semi-professional and responsible workers 216
Laborers (select) 778
Laborers (ordinary) 2,111
Servants 2,644
6,610
We can grasp the true meaning of these figures only by comparing the distribution of occupations among the Negroes with that of the total population of the city; for this purpose we must redistribute the occupations according to the simpler, but in many respects unsatisfactory, divisions of the United States census. We then have:
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Whole Population of Philadelphia, 1890.
Number. Per Cent.
Negroes of Seventh Ward, 1896.
Number. Per Cent.
Total population over 10 847,283 8,463
Number in gainful occupations 466,791 6,611
Per cent in gainful occupations 55.1 78
Engaged in agriculture 6,497 1.5 11 .2
Engaged in professional service 19,438 4.2 130* 2.0
Engaged in domestic and personal service 106,129 22.7 4,889 74.3
Engaged in trade and transportation 115,462 24.7 1,006 15.3
Engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries 219,265 46.9 541 8.2
*Omitting 24 students 21 years of age and over.
