A collection of the occupations or job descriptions of the people living in London in the 1890's. Most of the descriptions are fairly self explanatory, I'll elaborate on the ones that aren't in due course.
| Quarantine | Officers of customs and quarantine, they were responsible for ensuring that anyone arriving on a vessel with a foul bill (i.e. coming from a country where plague existed), did not come ashore until they had spent a period of quarantine to make sure that symptoms of plague did not develop. This practice started in England with an act of parliament in 1710, although the origins of the word quarantine dates from 1377 in Dubrovnik. The last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act of 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act of 1825. |
| Quarrel Picker | A glazier |
| Quarrier | A quarry worker |
| Quarry Man or Quarryman | A stone cutter |
| Quay Clerk | A clerk who worked at a quay or wharf. |
| Quiller | Someone who operated a machine that wound yarn onto spools. |
| Quilter | Someone who quilted material. |
| Quiltress | A female who quilted material. |
| Quister | Someone who bleached things. |
| Qwylwryghte | A wheelwright. |
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