[201] Census of Massachusetts, 1885, Part II., pp. xxxvi, xxxviii. In this statement only the number of women engaged in domestic service for remuneration is considered.
[202] Eleventh Census, Population, Part I., p. lxxxix.
[203] Eleventh Census, Wealth, Debt, and Taxation, Part II., p. 16, Chart.
[204] Ibid., p. 59.
[205] Eleventh Census, Wealth, Debt, and Taxation, Part II., pp. 376-403.
[206] Brooklyn, Buffalo, Camden, Fall River, Jersey City, Lowell, Newark, Paterson, Rochester, Trenton, Troy.
[207] P. 68.
[208] Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1885, pp. 196-312.
[209] In the classification in these two tables the employees in several large boarding houses were omitted. All of those included under the term “nurses” are nurse-maids, with the exception of the few receiving the highest wages.