1891 census entry occupation?

[dobfarm]

I've taken some of the scribble out.

could it be 'babies'

or

"Say what you see" or "what the person who wrote 'sick' saw" ( another word for illness maybe)

[rosie99]

I was thinking 'Dom' the same as JenB but I tried increasing it in size and it looked more like Drex under the scribble which made no sense at all.

[heywood]

Not positive what the word is, but I'm pretty sure that it is NOT "Serv" - look at the entry immediately below, plus at least two other entries on the same page, for the letter "S".

Maybe not ‘serv’ then!
It is written in a different hand to ‘Nurse’ and ‘Sick’ is a different hand again. Comparing ‘S’ doesn’t really help.
It looks as though whoever added ‘out of emplyment’ was the same writer.
JenB’s ‘dom’ does look very possible.

[haliared]

It looks like it is the enumerators note for collating data.
Nurse is her occupation, but it came under the category of 'sick' like a doctor. As a private nurse she could also have been listed under 'domestic' with house maid, cook etc.
Various mining jobs above and below ground were listed under 'mine or mining' etc.

[ValJJJ]

Thanks all of you. I think nurse + original word were entered first, then later when being gone through for analysis, someone has qualified it with the annotation’sick’ and scribbled out the mystery word because it didn’t fit into any preset categories.

I thought the mystery word ended with a ‘w’.

[ValJJJ]

Nurse is written in the ‘relationship to head’ column and the occupation column and look like they are in the same hand.

[Jebber]

Don’t forget that you are only looking at the enumerator's transcription of the original schedule. Mistakes were sometimes made during transcription and were later amended. You cannot be sure what the writing was like on the original schedule.

[ValJJJ]

And just read this https://www.ukcensusrecords.com/census-blog/1594984_trades-and-professions-in-the-census-1841-1901

Not that it helps much with the mystery word.

It does look like the penultimate letter is ‘x’ but nothing comes to mind that links in with nurse.

[ValJJJ]

Short words that might qualify the type of nurse:
Fever
Day
Night

No x in any of them!

Or a specific malady of either mother or baby? An outdated word so unfamiliar to us?