The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-06

Social Changes Indicated by q cnsus
of Occupations.
London Times.

London Times.
Some statistics lave just been published
relating TO the census OF occupations caken
in Berlin in the middle of last year. A pc
culiar feature presented in the Senerai re-
suit is that the number of persons actually
engaged in professions. trades. or produc-
tive industry has Increased by more than
the total addition to the population since
1SS2. On June IA, 1895, the population OF Ser
lin was 1,615. ST., as against 1854 In 49,.
OF the former. 200, 063 were employed in a
trade or profession OF one kind or other, as
against 474, 953 in 1852. The total number OF
persons dependent on those in active work
was 7S9, LOG in 1895. as ompare with 5Sl, 1872
in lS2. Independently OF these there were,
respectively, 90, 2S5 of no fixed occupation in
1895, and AZ, 1877 in 1881. The number of per-
sons in domestic service in the German
capital had very slightly increased in the
fourteen years, having risen from oS,VS TO
no more than 81, 063. The changes which
have been brought about during this inter-
val in the numbers employed and the num-
bers dependent are shown best by the per-
centageS of the population so CLASSIFIED at
the two periods. Thus, in 1895. OF every one
hundred inhabitants of the capital. 1888
were engaged IN trades or professions; as
class were represented at the two periods
by 3.aS and sol per cent, respectively, and
the class without occupations by 4.O4 and
$50. Another curious fact which is brought
out by the results is that the number of
persons engaged in m and traffic
has increased more rapidly than those
whose calling concerns productive industry
and manufactures generally. In 1895 there
were 404, 4Sl employed in productive indus
try, as compared with 2SS, 292 in 1Ss2, while
in and traffic the numbers of the
two periods were 1S0, 916 and Ito, 544 respect
lively. In other words, in 1852. there were
55.15 per cent. pursuing productive indus
tries, whereas, In 1885, there were only 52.S5
per cent. On the other hand, the relative
numbers engaged in commerce and traffic
1885. 1
1t is only in textile industries and certain
branches of art industry that the figures
show a slight decrease. In metallic manu-
features, on the contrary, there has been
in 1852, to 40. 12f. in 1895. In the manufacture
of machinery the numbers employed rose
from 21,2l6 to %. S95; in the building trades,
from 3S,22S to 51,217; in the printing and al
lied trades. from 9,723 to 1868; in traffic
and the distribution Oh goods. from 22,S25
to 3o,29o. In chemical industries the per-
sons occupied were nearly doubled in num-
Der, having increased from 2,343 to 4,64O,
while in the insurance department there
gagged in restaurants and i'm places of like
nature more than doubled in the fourteen
years, the numbers being 1905 and Sc. 21O,
respectively. The lowest class of laDorers
show an increase from q, PA to 31,512. Per-
sons. belonging to the army or to the civil
service, together with those who are indie
pendent. rose from 50.111 to 12.SiS. while
those who were in receipt of income from
house property or shares show an augmen-
tation from A., 1871 to s.. 2S5. 1t may be added
that the number of persons engaged in pro-
ductive industry in the rapidly rising su-
burb of Charlottenburg increased from
JO.046. in 1882, to 124. 047. in 1895. while those
employed in traffic and m in the
same center rose from 1900 to as, ia.