Note 344 — Chapter XVII · DOMESTIC SERVICE IN EUROPE
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In England “the majority of adult male indoor domestic servants are in large households employing over six servants.”—Miss Collet, Report, p. 23.
“Every English man-servant is apt to consider himself a specialist.... This want of elasticity has led to his gradual disappearance from all except the most wealthy households.”—Booth, VIII., 227.
In Italy cooks are very generally men. In France nearly all domestic work in the provincial hotels is performed by men. In Germany waiters are, as a rule, men.