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108 At work 6,610

In school 609

Housewives 568

Known criminals 116

Unoccupied, at home, defective, unknown, etc 560

8,463

The 6610 at work are distributed as follows:

Professions 101

Working on own account 268

In trades 492

Clerks, semi-professional and responsible workers 216

Laborers (select) 778

Laborers (ordinary) 2,111

Servants 2,644

6,610

We can grasp the true meaning of these figures only by comparing the distribution of occupations among the Negroes with that of the total population of the city; for this purpose we must redistribute the occupations according to the simpler, but in many respects unsatisfactory, divisions of the United States census. We then have:

Whole Population of Philadelphia, 1890.

Number. Per Cent.

Negroes of Seventh Ward, 1896.

Number. Per Cent.

Total population over 10 847,283 8,463

Number in gainful occupations 466,791 6,611

Per cent in gainful occupations 55.1 78

Engaged in agriculture 6,497 1.5 11 .2

Engaged in professional service 19,438 4.2 130* 2.0

Engaged in domestic and personal service 106,129 22.7 4,889 74.3

Engaged in trade and transportation 115,462 24.7 1,006 15.3

Engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries 219,265 46.9 541 8.2


 * Omitting 24 students 21 years of age and over.