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workmen down to unskilled labour, apart from three 

 special classes separately tabulated, viz. textile work- 

 ers, miners, and agricultural labourers. The detailed 

 classification was, necessarily for comparative pur- 

 poses, that of the census. The subsequent grouping 

 under heads i to 5 especially is necessarily rough 

 since many of the census groups are very hetero- 

 geneous, pooling together persons of very different 

 grades in the same industry or profession but it 

 probably serves w r ell as a broad indication of the wa\ 

 things are going. We have to allow, however, for the 

 additional difficulty that the occupation given at the 

 registration of the birth may often have been different 

 from that given on the census schedule and the differ- 

 ence might create some discrepancies. 



TABLE VI. 



From Report of Reg. Genl. of England and Wales, 

 1912. Births classified by occupation of the 

 father. Classes i and 2 represent preponder- 

 antly the Upper and Middle classes; 3 to 8 

 the Manual Working classes graduated from 

 skilled to unskilled; 6, 7 and 8 are special 

 groups. 



Legitimate births in 1911 



S ' |A S 



per 1000 males, per 1000 married 



10 years and over, males under 55, 

 including the including the 



"ret "retir 



119 

 132 



125 

 230 

 161 



162 



