INCREASE OF POPULATION—(FEMALES)., TABLE III.—Showing the Number of Females, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines, in each County and District as returned at the Censuses of 1854, 1857, and 1861, with the absolute and proportionate Increase or Diminution of Females in each County and District in each period.
COUNTIES AND DISTRICTS.	FEMALES, 1854, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines.	Increase or Diminution from 1854 to 1857.		FEMALES, 1857, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines.	Increase or Diminution from 1857 to 1861.		FEMALES, 1861, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines.
COUNTIES AND DISTRICTS.	FEMALES, 1854, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines.	Numerical.	Rate per cent.	FEMALES, 1857, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines.	Numerical.	Rate per cent.	FEMALES, 1861, exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines.
Anglesey	215	95	44.2	310	304	98.1	614
Bourke	41,527	18,706	45.0	60,233	18,189	30.2	78,422
Dalhousie	2,036	1,579	77.5	3,615	4,100	113.4	7,715
Dundas	500	367	73.4	867	597	68.8	1,464
Evelyn	514	526	102.3	1,040	366	35.2	1,406
Follett	167	46	27.5	213	96	45.0	309
Grant	13,331	12,099	90.8	25,430	4,004	15.7	29,434
Grenville	2,282	3,281	143.8	5,563	5,985	107.5	11,548
Hampden	342	400	117.0	742	517	69.6	1,259
Heytesbury	131	93	71.0	224	203	90.6	427
Mornington	475	508	106.9	983	855	87.0	1,838
Normanby	1,947	903	46.4	2,850	922	32.3	3,772
Polwarth	430	263	61.1	693	234	33.7	927
Ripon	369	1,283	347.7	1,652	1,453	87.9	3,105
Talbot	4,220	8,673	205.5	12,893	7,812	60.6	20,705
Villiers	2,654	2,179	82.1	4,833	1,527	31.6	6,360
Gipps Land	711	683	96.0	1,394	1,024	73.4	2,418
The Loddon	5,743	8,629	150.2	14,372	7,133	49.6	21,505
Rodney	313	72	23.0	385	538	139.7	923
The Murray	1,528	3,657	239.3	5,185	4,028	77.7	9,213
The Wimmera	723	644	89.0	1,367	5,586	408.6	6,953
Population in Ships, &c., and unenumerated	742	227	30.5	969	- 271	- 28.0	698
Total	80,900	64,913	80.2	145,813	65,202	44.7	211,015