+----------+--------+-----------+----------+--------------+ | | St. |Shoreditch.| Bethnal |_Whitechapel._| | |Pancras.| | Green. | | +----------+--------+-----------+----------+--------------+ |=All ages=|=109·9= | =105·2= | =102·9= | _93·4_ | |Under 5} | | | | | | years } | 97·2 | 102·3 | 99·1 | _103·6_ | | 5-10 | 104·5 | 101·3 | 98·6 | _101·9_ | | 10-15 | 105·4 | 102·2 | 102·5 | _102·1_ | | 15-20 | 107·3 | 98·3[1] | 98·1[1]| _100·0_ | | 20-25 | 108·5 | 104·5 | 101·7 | _83·0_ | | 25-30 | 109·4 | 100·8 | 105·0 | _82·1_ | | 30-35 | 108·1 | 102·7 | 102·5 | _82·4_ | |=35-45= |=110·3= | =104·8= | =101·6= | =89·4= | | 45-55 | 118·3 | 111·6 | 110·8 | _92·4_ | +----------+--------+-----------+----------+--------------+ [1] I have made no attempt to estimate the error introduced into the Census by falsehood. 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. According to Mr. Charles Booth’s classification in “Labour and Life,”[2] Kensington has 30·4 per cent. of middle and upper class people (classes _G._ and _H._), Hackney 24·2, Islington 20·9, London 17·8, Pancras 15·2. The percentage of these classes in Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, and Whitechapel is too small to be taken into account, but Shoreditch has 59·8 per cent. “in comfort,” while Bethnal Green has 55·4. The order of these districts is, therefore, exactly the same whether we arrange them according to preponderance of females over males, or according to well-being. Whitechapel is set apart from the rest, most probably by the peculiar effects of the Jewish immigration. Putting aside for the moment the question whether the preponderance is entirely due to the servant class, there can be little doubt that it is connected with the servant-keeping classes. Between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five the merely migrant portion of the community seem to have disappeared, large numbers of shop-assistants, domestic servants, etc., having married and settled down amongst their own class. Between these ages but a small percentage of unmarried people marry; they are, or should be, in the prime of life, and for several reasons it is a period to notice, especially in estimating the proportion of men or women who remain unmarried. [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._