- A) A grown-up female—
- a) By spinning and ordinary knitting can seldom gain more than 4, 6, or 8 kr. daily; by finer knitting, embroidery, lace-making, and other such female work, which are paid by the piece, can seldom gain more than from 10 to 25 kr. one day with another.
- b) A sempstress receives, in the country, in small places, from 4 to 6 kr., in larger places and towns, from 12 to 15 kr.; in the capital, a dress-maker, an ironer, a plaiter, from 24, 36 to 48 kr. daily, besides board.
- c) A washerwoman or charwoman receives in the country only 8, 10, 12, 15 to 18 kr.; in the capital, 36 kr. daily, with board; or without board, from 1 fl. to 1 fl. 12 kr.
- d) A maid servant receives, in money and money’s worth, annually, besides board, in the country only 16, 18, 20, to 24 fl.; in the capital, 24, 30, 36 to 40 fl.; to which, according to circumstances, vails are to be added, especially in the capital.
- B) A male adult receives, namely—
- a) A journeyman workman—
- aa) In the country, with the shoemakers and tailors, 20, 24, to 30 kr.; with the bakers, 48 kr. to 1 fl.; with the smiths, 48 kr. to 1 fl. 12 kr.; with calendrers and tanners, 48 kr. to 2 fl. weekly, with board; a journeyman carpenter or bricklayer, from 30 to 36 kr. daily, with bread and something to drink.
- bb) In the capital, with board, from 1 fl. 12 kr. to 2 fl. 42 kr. weekly; without board, 36 kr. to 1fl. daily; on Sunday, nothing.
- b) A man servant receives, in the country, 20, 30, 36, to 40 fl.; in the capital, 50 to 60 fl. and more per annum, with board.
- c) A farmer’s labourer or other day labourer in the country, 12, 15, 18, 20, to 24 kr. daily, with board, or, instead of the latter, 10 or 12 kr. in money; in the capital, in winter, from 24 to 30 kr.; in summer, from 36 to 48 kr. for everything.
- d) A wood-cleaver can gain daily in all only from 20 to 24, and at the most, 30 kr.
- a) A journeyman workman—
English Statistics.
The answers to the following eight purely statistical questions may also be compared with the results respecting England and Wales, obtained by the Enumeration of 1831.
14. The proportion of annual deaths to the whole population?
15. The proportion of annual births to the whole population?
16. The proportion of annual marriages to the whole population?
17. The average number of children to a marriage?
18. Proportion of legitimate to illegitimate births?
19. The proportion of children that die before the end of their 1st year?