POVERTY.

116

                                                  s. d. Female heads of families .  .    •   •    . 12 l|
       ,, supplementary earners .    •   •    »95
       ,, lodgers.............................12
    Average per female worker (excluding domestic
       servants}..............................¹⁰ 9

     If we include domestic servants, estimating their average earnings, including board, etc., at ^35 per annum, the average earnings of female workers are raised to 12s.
     The average earnings per worker, male and female, excluding domestic servants, are 21s. njd., or if we include the latter (including board, etc.), 20s. 8-|d.
     C.    Number of Wage-Earners.—Of the 47,754 persons belonging to the wage-earning classes in York, 17,457, or 37-5 per cent of the whole, are earning money.¹
     Of these 17,457 workers, 14,090, or 81 per cent, are males, and 3367, or 19 per cent, females.
     The average number of wage-earners per family is 1.5 excluding the 2864 domestic servants, or f-75 if these are included.

          ¹ Domestic servants are not included in these figures.