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Table 6.—Analysis of Building and Construction Labour Force (Males and Females) at 15th October, 1946, by Occupation and Class of Work

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Occupation. State Rental Houses and Flats. Local Authority Houses and Flats. Other Houses and Flats. Hospitals and Educational Institutions. Other Government Buildings, Other Local Authority Buildings. Industrial Manufacture Storage and Farm Buildings other than Dwellings. Commercial and other Buildings. Bridge construction. Civil and Electrical Engineering for Government. Other Civil and Electrical Engineering. Maintenance, Repair, and Small Jobbing Work. Not Classifiable by Class of Work. Total. Carpenters 3,145 277 2,997 522 197 70 648 902 25 422 68 898 10,171 Plumbers 213 37 408 112 27 5 68 54 46 6 866 1,842 Bricklayers 135 10 130 7 4 5 21 30 3 2 46 393 Plasterers 161 10 222 65 24 13 38 68 3 54 658 Painters 592 31 595 143 44 6 85 270 65 7 520 2,358 Drainlayers 51 4 36 9 2 2 5 8 *2 4 '5 24 152 Electricians 189 8 218 32 11 4 90 92 72 57 408 1,181 Roof tilers and fixers 113 102 21 17 37 9 2 25 326 Welders, riveters, and other steel 14 14 1 *6 19 17 123 i3 130 337 workers Concrete- workers 36 4 14 12 2 8 28 46 14 49 11 19 243 Bridge carpenters 64 12 4 5 85 Lorry-drivers 37 **4 30 is 4 "6 18 17 5 222 44 151 556 Other machine-drivers 24 10 1 1 3 3 - 8 415 50 136 651 Tunnellers 5 204 28 237 Other, skilled 65 "4 34 '44 "7 *5 *47 u *23 573 90 : 245 1,151 Other, semi-skilled 85 4 75 19 15 24 13 80 5 1,218 133 395 2,066 Labourers 552 42 400 202 98 117 378 313 83 2,503 233 829 5,750 Surveyors and other professional.. 1,513 1,513 Clerical and other commercial .. Not classifiable bv class of J 2,389 2,389 Other, miscellaneous work } 318 318 Working proprietors I 3,470 3,470 Total 5,417 435 5,261 1,230 454 272 1,498 1,923 229 5,936 751 4,751 7,690 35,847