FEMALE -------------------------------------+--------+-----+--------- Occupation. | Totals.| No. |Per cent -------------------------------------+--------+-----+--------- Domestic and personal service | 3,456 | -- | 89.3 Chambermaids | -- | 22 | -- Cooks | -- | 149 | Day workers out | -- | 19 | Domestic servants (not specified) | -- | 88 | 2.3 Hairdressers | -- | 6 | -- Manicurists and masseurs | -- | 18 | -- Housekeepers | -- | 60 | -- Housewives | -- | 51 | -- General housework (wages) | -- | 72 | 18.6 General housework (not specified) | -- |1572 | -- Janitress and caretakers | -- | 28 | -- Laundresses | -- | 543 | 14.0 Ladies' maids | -- | 23 | -- Maids (not specified) | -- | 80 | 2.1 Nurses | -- | 21 | -- Waitresses | -- | 47 | -- Miscellaneous | -- | 4 | -- | | | Trade | 25 | -- | 0.6 Bookkeepers | -- | 2 | -- Clerks and saleswomen | -- | 6 | -- Stenographers and typewriters | -- | 8 | -- Miscellaneous | -- | 9 | -- | | | Manufacturing and mechanical pursuits| 564 | -- | 5.5 Dressmakers | -- | 164 | 4.2 Garment workers | -- | 18 | .5 Milliners | -- | 5 | -- Seamstresses | -- | 16 | -- Tailors' assistants | -- | 3 | -- Miscellaneous | -- | 6 | -- | | | Unclassified | 176 | -- | 4.6 Telephone operators | -- | 1 | -- Unknown | -- | 175 | -- -------------------------------------+--------+-----+--------- Total for all occupations | 4,045 | -- | -- -------------------------------------+--------+-----+--------- [A] In classifying these occupations, some departure has been made from the Federal Census arrangement. Those engaged in Public Service have been separated from Domestic and Personal Service, while Trade and Transportation are tabulated separately; a few occupations have been put in an unclassified list, while one or two occupations are included that might possibly be regarded as professional. This rearrangement,
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