PEOPLE OF ENGLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 18

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND

In 1931 the Census officials counted tho people of England and Wales, and in ten weeks reported that those countries contained nearly 40,000,000 people. -After three years of analysis they roport that tho precise- total for 1931 was 39,952,377, mado up of 20,819,367 fomales and 19,133,010 males, an excess of 1,686,357 females. Since then England and Wales have grown so slowly that at present their population is roundly 40,500,000. In ten years up to 1931 the people grew by about two millions. The Census not only counts but'classifies, and we now know how tho people worked in 1931. Tho count of workers was for both sexes agod fourteen and over. Of tho males 13,200,000 were working for gain and 1,380,000 wero unoccupied. Of the females 5,600,000 wero working for gain and 10,800,000 were unoccupied. So nearly 19,000,000 men, women, and children in England and Wales work for money. Of course most of tho women returned as unoccupied in the sense of not working for wages wore hardworking women labouring •in their homes, but not for pay; Women working for gain increased; women doctors and surgeons increased by 124 per cent. Women wore reported- in such unusual jobs as chief constables, inspectors, and superintendents (IU), navigating officors (3), builder's foremen (4), estate labourers (9), ami one was a gamekeeper. i