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industries of Düsseldorf between 1875 and 1895 may, however, be obtained from
the following table, based on the results of the three great Occupation Censuses
of 1875, 1882 and 1895
Group of Trades.
Number of persons occupied.
1875
Building...
Smelting, &c
Metal Working and Machine Making
Textiles ...
Clothing and Cleaning
Commerce
Other ... ... ... ...
Total ...
1,491
1,392
3,017
1,703
2,701
2,516
5,941
18,761
1882
1,959
2,957
4,115
1,672
3,284
4,245
7,884
26,116
1895
6,896
4,403
10,172
3,172
5,004
7,914
16,019
53,580
The most recent classification of the purely industrial population is the
official return of employees in factories and workshops and undertakings
included with them, under official inspection. Of such employees there were,
in 1905, 31,636, engaged in 917 undertakings, 27,244, or 86T per cent.,
being males. The great preponderance of the mineral, metal, and engineering
trades is shown by the fact that they embraced 6T8 per cent, of all the
workpeople, viz. :—mining, smelting, &c., 5,133, metal working, 8,213, and
machine, implement and apparatus making, 6,205. After them came the textile
trades, with 2,122 workpeople (of whom 1,054 or 49 7 per cent, were females),
equal to 6*7 per cent, of the whole. Of the 4,382 female workers 1,361, or
31*0 per cent., were over 21 years of age, 2,257, or 51 4 per cent., were
between 16 and 21, and 774, or 17*6 per cent., were 16 years or under. The
return is as follows :—
Group of Trades.
! Number
of
Establishments.
Mining, smelting, and salt works
Metal-working
Machinery, implement, and
apparatus making.
Textiles
Clothing and cleaning
-Paper ... ... ... ...
Printing, lithography, bookbinding,
&c.
Woodworking and carving
Chemicals ...
Resins, varnishes, oil, soap,
candles, &c.
Stone and earth
Food, drink, and tobacco
Leather
Total...
22
117
28
242
26
39
79
15
35
197
3
917
Number of Workpeople.
Males
over
16 years.
Females
over
16 years.
5,029
7,542
5,788
1,011
285
583
991
1,800
179
500
927
1,281
7
25,923
169
12
876
1,183
236
371
70
163
234
81
221
2
3,618
Juveniles
14, but
not over
16 years.
104
501
405
235
310
■67
104
100
41
25
69
121
9
2,085
Children
under
14 years.
10
Total.
5,133
8,213
6,205
2,122
1,786
886
1,467
1,970
383
759
1,077
1,623
12
11,636
The engineering trade of Düsseldorf is many-sided, and upon this
trade the town rests its high industrial reputation. Most of the larger works
are situated either upon the outskirts or at some distance from the town,
though they are well served by the tramway system. The principal manufactures
are steam engines, locomotives, bridges, boilers, cranes, machine tools,
mining plant, and electrical machinery. A considerable amount of work is
done for the English market. There are also important iron and steel works,
which produce plates and railway material, and there are ordnance and cartridge
factories. The Düsseldorf machinery works rank amongst the best equipped
