SUMMARY TABLE VIII., SHOWING the OCCUPATION of MALES in ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.
OCCUPATIONS. Total of Electoral Districts. INHABITANTS OF
Melbourne. St. Kilda. Collingwood. South Melbourne. Richmond. Williamstown. Brighton. Geelong. Portland. Belfast.
CLASS I.—Persons engaged in the General or Local Government and Defence of the Country :—
Officers in the Civil and Military Service, Judges, Magistrates, Soldiers, Police, Messengers, and Workmen 3,521 749 78 156 56 173 156 11 234 48 26
CLASS II.—Persons in the Learned Professions (with their immediate subordinates) not in Government employment :—
Sub-Class 1. Clergymen and Ministers 162 26 6 21 2 6 4 5 23 5 3
Sub-Class 2. Church Officers—Lay Readers, Sextons, and persons employed about Churches 29 10 2 3 2 5 1 1
Sub-Class 3. Physicians and Surgeons 502 99 36 38 18 11 4 6 37 5 3
Sub-Class 4. Apothecaries, Dispensing Chemists, Assistants in Surgeries, Hospitals, &c. 260 77 19 38 7 14 1 1 25 3 1
Sub-Class 5. Lawyers—Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Proctors 217 36 26 43 10 17 1 6 28 2 3
Sub-Class 6. Law Clerks and persons employed in Lawyers' Offices 155 43 6 44 5 14 2 26 2 1
CLASS III.—Persons engaged in Literature, Fine Arts and Sciences :—
Sub-Class 1. Teachers in Schools, Governesses, Professors of Music, Drawing, &c. 291 44 12 23 6 13 3 5 29 4 3
Sub-Class 2. Architects, Civil Engineers, Editors, Reporters, Painters (Artists), Photographers, &c. 538 161 32 73 21 30 9 9 57 2 2
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend Goods or Money :—
Sub-Class 1. Merchants and Wholesale Dealers 1,946 814 182 312 97 119 20 21 167 11 3
Sub-Class 2. Shopkeepers, Storekeepers, Retailers, Pedlers, &c. 4,317 1,242 142 381 153 106 29 25 384 14 10
Sub-Class 3. Bankers, Accountants, Bookkeepers Gold Buyers, Auctioneers, Agents, &c. 1,091 341 81 175 54 103 11 6 124 10 12
Sub-Class 4. Commercial Clerks, Salespeople and Assistants in Shops and Stores, Messengers, and Porters 3,898 1,611 126 527 171 161 29 7 443 26 33
CLASS V.—Persons engaged in Entertaining, Clothing, and performing Personal Offices for Man :—
Sub-Class 1. Inn and Lodging-house Keepers, Publicans, Livery Stable Keepers and Barmen, Grooms, &c. in Hotels 2,584 846 42 103 86 38 35 20 267 14 21
Sub-Class 2. Tailors, Dressmakers, Needlewomen, Shoemakers, Hatters, &c. 2,018 513 53 217 61 78 17 21 241 31 19
Sub-Class 3. Domestic Servants (General), Coachmen, Grooms, Gardeners, &c. 2,077 296 128 101 23 67 17 38 167 17 14
CLASS VI.—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in Art and Mechanical Productions, and in working and dealing in Minerals, Vegetable, and Animal Matters :—
Sub-Class 1. Employers in Manufactures and Arts, Contractors, &c. 1,245 338 73 215 54 81 20 13 183 7 7
Sub-Class 2. Workers in Stone and Clay—Masons, Bricklayers, Slaters, Plasterers, Quarrymen, &c. 3,198 761 208 503 68 175 36 57 402 26 10
Sub-Class 3. Workers in Iron—Blacksmiths, Whitesmiths, Founders, Horseshoers, &c. 1,345 291 28 121 24 32 12 9 108 13 8
Sub-Class 4. Workers in Wood—Carpenters, Cabinetmakers, Coachmakers, Wheelwrights, &c. 5,699 1,284 302 699 362 291 141 53 693 48 35
Sub-Class 5. Other Artizans and Mechanics ; Printers, Compositors, Book-binders, Tanners, Fellmongers, &c. 5,645 1,610 193 555 231 230 56 50 541 50 25
Sub-Class 6. Hammermen, Hodmen, Apprentices and Assistants to Mechanics, &c. 760 221 21 124 16 55 5 4 72 10 9
CLASS VII.—Mining—Persons engaged in digging for and washing out Gold 31,754 799 44 201 78 46 13 7 359 2 1
CLASS VIII.—Agricultural and Pastoral—Persons working Land and engaged in growing Grain, Fruits, Animals, and other products :—
Sub-Class 1. Squatters, Stockholders, Settlers, Sheep Farmers and Graziers 870 50 11 9 1 3 1 3 29 2 3
Sub-Class 2. Shepherds, Stockmen, Hutkeepers, and Station Servants 5,926 45 3 14 5 3 1 4 26 3 4
Sub-Class 3. Landed Proprietors (cultivating), Yeomen and Farmers 2,819 67 22 27 8 6 4 145 162 20 12
Sub-Class 4. Gardeners (Proprietors and Occupants) 362 9 35 7 8 1 42 39 1
Sub-Class 5. Farmers' Brothers, Sons, Nephews, &c., Farm Laborers, Gardeners working for hire (i.e. not Domestic Servants), Dairymaids, &c. 4,256 99 92 37 17 75 3 148 148 29 3
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the Conveyance of Men and Goods and Water :—
Draymen, Bullock-drivers, Cab-owners and Cabmen, Bargemen, Watercarriers, &c. 4,899 762 187 560 263 251 121 36 517 40 10
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in Food and Drinks :—
Butchers, Bakers, Fishmongers, Confectioners, Greengrocers, Brewers, Cordial Makers, &c. 3,125 675 87 241 118 110 49 44 255 19 15
CLASS XI.—Laborers—Branch of Labor undefined 8,509 1,660 328 677 298 248 93 80 1,151 112 72
CLASS XII.—Miscellaneous Pursuits—Persons engaged in occupations, not embraced in other classes 1,270 336 40 89 46 30 9 9 117 9 8
CLASS XIII.—Independent Means—Persons of Property and Rank not returned under any office or occupation :—
Annuitants, House and Land Owners, Independent means, Gentlemen, &c. 1,617 366 95 216 52 80 23 33 188 14 7
CLASS XIV.—Persons engaged in Domestic Offices or Duties, and of no specified occupation :—
Boys under fifteen years of age (whether attending school or not) 29,392 3,880 1,291 2,879 744 1,219 339 502 3,235 439 254
CLASS XV.—Sailors 2,115 611 18 93 260 44 155 1 139 10 16
CLASS XVI.—Persons whose pursuits have not been specified or who were unemployed 2,569 408 73 170 44 115 20 56 304 11 3
CLASS XVII.—Persons maintained at Public Cost or by the Community :—
Sub-Class 1. Prisoners in Gaols, Hulks, Stockades and Watchhouses 1,165 472 51 162 91 24
Sub-Class 2. Patients in Hospitals, Inmates of Asylums, Immigration Depots, &c. 748 384 237 49 6
TOTALS 142,894 22,036 4,359 9,692 3,459 4,105 1,600 1,479 11,065 1,089 658