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exact number of factories employing more 

 than 1,000, 500, 100, and 50 workmen. But 

 such lists are issued only for the mining in- 

 dustry. As to the statistics published by the 

 Factory Inspectors, they do not contain such 

 data, perhaps because the inspectors have no 

 time to tabulate their figures, or have not the 

 right to do so. Be it as it may, the Report 

 of Mr. Whitelegge for 1897 gives the number 

 of factories (textile and non-textile) and work- 

 shops for each of the 119 counties of the United 

 Kingdom and for each of the nearly hundred 

 sub-divisions of all the industries, as well as 

 the number of workpeople in each of these 

 more than 10,000 sub-divisions. So I was 

 enabled to calculate the averages of persons 

 employed in the factories and workshops for 

 each separate branch of industry in each 

 county. Besides, Mr. Whitelegge has had the 

 kindness to give me two very important figures 

 namely, the number of factories employing 

 more than 1,000 workpeople, and the number 

 of those factories where less than ten workers 

 are employed. 



Let us take, first of all, the TEXTILE in- 

 dustries, which include cotton, wool, silk, linen, 

 jute, and hemp, as well as machine-made 

 lace and knitting. Many of my readers will 



