GENERAL SUMMARY OF MINING DISTRICTS., TABLE XVII.—Showing the Population of the Mining Districts, inclusive and exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines ; the Number of Chinese and Aborigines, and of Persons living in Tents and Camping out ; also the Number of Houses, Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building ; with a Return giving a Classification of the Houses according to the materials of which they are built, and to their size, as shown by the number of rooms—continued.
| NAME OF MINING DISTRICT. |
HOUSES. |
POPULATION (exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines) dwelling in |
TRAVELLERS sleeping under Drays and Camping out. |
CHINESE dwelling in |
| Materials. |
Rooms. |
Brick, Stone, Wood, or Iron Houses. |
Tents, and Dwellings having Canvas roofs. |
Houses of unstated materials. |
Slab, Bark, and Mud Huts. |
Europeans. |
Chinese. |
Stone, Brick, Wood, or Iron Buildings. |
Tents, and Dwellings having Canvas roofs. |
Habitations of unstated materials. |
| Brick or Stone. |
Wood or Iron, Lath and Plaster. |
Tents and Dwellings having Canvas roofs. |
Slab, Bark, and Mud Huts. |
Not stated. |
One. |
Two. |
Three and Four. |
Five and Six. |
Over Six. |
Not stated. |
| Brick, Stone, Wood, or Iron. |
Canvas and Huts. |
| Ararat |
30 |
627 |
2,421 |
200 |
54 |
36 |
1,999 |
611 |
416 |
79 |
66 |
125 |
2,807 |
144 |
5,497 |
689 |
32 |
6 |
7 |
1,260 |
19 |
| Ballaarat |
381 |
9,724 |
4,739 |
1,274 |
304 |
933 |
3,850 |
4,834 |
4,633 |
868 |
574 |
730 |
40,847 |
775 |
9,627 |
3,864 |
133 |
|
726 |
5,137 |
102 |
| Beechworth |
88 |
2,282 |
2,665 |
1,668 |
165 |
260 |
2,704 |
1,778 |
1,253 |
244 |
212 |
417 |
9,100 |
388 |
4,786 |
4,441 |
104 |
19 |
271 |
3,996 |
245 |
| Castlemaine |
1,096 |
3,185 |
7,177 |
875 |
275 |
351 |
5,602 |
3,134 |
2,191 |
419 |
275 |
636 |
18,208 |
672 |
15,208 |
2,780 |
152 |
5 |
177 |
6,192 |
166 |
| Maryborough |
216 |
2,245 |
13,289 |
578 |
427 |
175 |
11,391 |
2,435 |
1,417 |
309 |
233 |
795 |
10,732 |
936 |
31,020 |
2,107 |
84 |
|
41 |
2,949 |
197 |
| Sandhurst |
739 |
2,997 |
6,878 |
1,533 |
288 |
257 |
5,504 |
3,151 |
2,182 |
440 |
332 |
569 |
16,614 |
443 |
16,070 |
5,471 |
235 |
5 |
124 |
2,339 |
85 |
| Total, 1861 |
2,550 |
21,060 |
37,169 |
6,128 |
1,513 |
2,012 |
31,050 |
15,943 |
12,092 |
2,359 |
1,692 |
2,272 |
98,308 |
3,358 |
82,208 |
19,352 |
740 |
35 |
1,346 |
21,873 |
814 |
| Total, 1857 |
488 |
9,559 |
41,935 |
458 |
30,857 |
10,865 |
3,738 |
584 |
465 |
5,931 |
42,265 |
99,097 |
1,565 |
756 |
44 |
22,823 |
|
| Increase or Decrease |
2,062 |
11,501 |
1,362 |
1,055 |
2,205 |
5,078 |
8,354 |
1,775 |
1,227 |
- 2659 |
59,401 |
2,463 |
- 825 |
- 721 |
1,302 |
- 950 |
814 |
| Increase or Decrease per cent. |
422.5 |
120.3 |
3.2 |
230.3 |
7.1 |
46.7 |
223.4 |
303.9 |
263.8 |
- 44.8 |
140.5 |
2.4 |
- 52.7 |
- 96.6 |
2959.0 |
- 4.1 |
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