-+-------+--------+------+-------+-------
Musicians and teachers | | | | | |
of music | 950| 2,581| 171.7 | 24| 73| 204.2
Housekeepers and | | | | | |
stewardesses | 797| 2,421| 203.8 | 83| 226| 172.3
Laundresses | 1,416| 4,329| 205.7 | 1,526| 3,224| 111.3
Nurses and midwives | 1,220| 4,416| 262.0 | 67| 290| 332.8
Servants and | | | | | |
waitresses[E] | 11,140| 22,616| 103.0 | 3,754| 10,297| 174.3
Clerks and copyists | 2,505| 7,811| 419.0 | 5| 22| --
Bookkeepers and | | | | | |
accountants | 1,492| 6,998| 360.0 | 2| 10| --
Stenographers and | | | | | |
typewriters | 1,356| 9,518| 601.9 | 3| 14| --
Saleswomen | 7,476| 18,315| 144.7 | 4| 13| --
Dressmakers | 13,106| 22,137| 68.9 | 418| 813| 94.5
Seamstresses | 4,206| 7,855| 86.7 | 103| 249| 141.7
-------------------------+-------+-------+--------+------+-------+-------
Total | 45,664|108,997| 138.5 | 5,989| 15,231| 154.3
-------------------------+-------+-------+--------+------+-------+-------
NOTES FOR TABLE XVI.

[A] Eleventh Census, _Part ii, Population_, p. 704. Occupations
for Negroes in 1890 are approximately accurate as Chinese,
_etc._, made up less than 10 per cent. of the total Colored
population. Twelfth Census, _Special Rep._, Table 43,
_Occupations_, pp. 634-640.

[B] In 1890 occupation marked only "servants."

[C] Includes livery-stable keepers in 1890.

[D] Messengers, packers, and porters, _etc._, classed together
in 1890.

[E] 1900, "servants and waitresses;" 1890, "servants."

[F] Includes clerks, _etc._, in 1890.

OCCUPATIONS IN 1905

In the 2,500 families, composed of 9,788 persons, 1,859 were excluded
because of their being under fifteen years of age and 82 were excluded
because, although members of wage-earning families, they themselves
were either in a professional occupation, or were engaged in a
business enterprise on their own account. This left 7,847 individual
wage-earners, 3,802 of whom were male and 4,045 were female. Both the
male and the female wage-