SUMMARY TABLE VI. SHOWING the OCCUPATION of MALES in COUNTIES and PASTORAL DISTRICTS.
OCCUPATIONS. Total of Victoria. Total of Shipping and Travellers, including an estimate for migratory population. Total of Counties and Pastoral Districts. INHABITANTS OF
Anglesey. Bourke (including Melbourne.) Dalhousie. Dundas.
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 3,965 444 3,521 11 1,591 229 14
CLASS II.—Persons in the Learned Professions (with their immediate subordinates) not in Government employment :—
Sub-Class 1. Clergymen and Ministers 162 162 86 7
Sub-Class 2. Church Officers—Lay Readers, Sextons, and persons employed about Churches 32 3 29 18 2
Sub-Class 3. Physicians and Surgeons 523 21 502 1 242 16 3
Sub-Class 4. Apothecaries, Dispensing Chemists, Assistants in Surgeries, Hospitals, &c. 267 7 260 172 5
Sub-Class 5. Lawyers—Barristers, Attorneys, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Proctors 220 3 217 150 6
Sub-Class 6. Law Clerks and persons employed in Lawyers' Offices 155 155 120 1
CLASS III.—Persons engaged in Literature, Fine Arts and Sciences :—
Sub-Class 1. Teachers in Schools, Governesses, Professors of Music, Drawing, &c. 294 3 291 1 153 11 2
Sub-Class 2. Architects, Civil Engineers, Editors, Reporters, Painters (Artists), Photographers, &c. 551 13 538 370 8
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend Goods or Money :—
Sub-Class 1. Merchants and Wholesale Dealers 1,980 34 1,946 1,619 11
Sub-Class 2. Shopkeepers, Storekeepers, Retailers, Pedlers, &c. 4,565 248 4,317 7 2,251 102 8
Sub-Class 3. Bankers, Accountants, Bookkeepers Gold Buyers, Auctioneers, Agents, &c. 1,113 22 1,091 800 5 1
Sub-Class 4. Commercial Clerks, Salespeople and Assistants in Shops and Stores, Messengers, and Porters 3,989 91 3,898 2 2,711 39 2
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 2,638 54 2,584 4 1,411 126 5
Sub-Class 2. Tailors, Dressmakers, Needlewomen, Shoemakers, Hatters, &c. 2,080 62 2,018 9 1,086 57 14
Sub-Class 3. Domestic Servants (General), Coachmen, Grooms, Gardeners, &c. 2,127 50 2,077 18 878 65 25
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. 1,259 14 1,245 3 871 30
Sub-Class 2. Workers in Stone and Clay—Masons, Bricklayers, Slaters, Plasterers, Quarrymen, &c. 3,252 54 3,198 3 2,166 74 4
Sub-Class 3. Workers in Iron—Blacksmiths, Whitesmiths, Founders, Horseshoers, &c. 1,421 76 1,345 1 662 50 6
Sub-Class 4. Workers in Wood—Carpenters, Cabinetmakers, Coachmakers, Wheelwrights, &c. 5,872 173 5,699 6 3,565 197 11
Sub-Class 5. Other Artizans and Mechanics ; Printers, Compositors, Book-binders, Tanners, Fellmongers, &c. 5,886 241 5,645 8 3,297 207 22
Sub-Class 6. Hammermen, Hodmen, Apprentices and Assistants to Mechanics, &c. 771 11 760 1 543 53 1
CLASS VII.—Mining—Persons engaged in digging for and washing out Gold 36,332 4,578 31,754 6 1,410 392 3
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 884 14 870 28 131 31 35
Sub-Class 2. Shepherds, Stockmen, Hutkeepers, and Station Servants 5,981 55 5,926 111 421 250 358
Sub-Class 3. Landed Proprietors (cultivating), Yeomen and Farmers 2,844 25 2,819 2 1,280 194 3
Sub-Class 4. Gardeners (Proprietors and Occupants) 275 13 362 242 13
Sub-Class 5. Farmers' Brothers, Sons, Nephews, &c., Farm Laborers, Gardeners working for hire (i.e. not Domestic Servants), Dairymaids, &c. 4,294 38 4,256 5 2,205 186 5
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the Conveyance of Men and Goods :—
Draymen, Bullock-drivers, Cab-owners and Cabmen, Bargemen, Watercarriers, &c. 5,957 1,058 4,899 10 2,868 209 23
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in Food and Drinks :—
Butchers, Bakers, Fishmongers, Confectioners, Greengrocers, Brewers, Cordial Makers, &c. 3,307 182 3,125 3 1,541 85 4
CLASS XI.—Laborers—Branch of Labor undefined 8,904 395 8,509 22 4,691 453 26
CLASS XII.—Miscellaneous Pursuits—Persons engaged in occupations, not embraced in other classes 1,332 62 1,270 3 669 29 1
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. 1,653 36 1,617 7 1,068 29 6
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) 30,204 812 29,392 96 14,184 886 242
CLASS XV.—Sailors 5,712 3,597 2,115 1 1,304 31
CLASS XVI.—Persons whose pursuits have not been specified or who were unemployed 2,590 21 2,569 9 1,201 85 21
CLASS XVII.—Persons maintained at Public Cost or by the Community :—
Sub-Class 1. Prisoners in Gaols, Hulks, Stockades and Watchhouses 1,627 462 1,165 955
Sub-Class 2. Patients in Hospitals, Inmates of Asylums, Immigration Depots, &c. 758 10 748 621
TOTALS 155,876 12,982 142,894 378 59,553 4,174 845