SUMMARY BY COUNTIES AND PASTORAL DISTRICTS—(FEMALES)., TABLE XII.—Showing the Occupations of Females in each County and Pastoral District.
OCCUPATIONS. Total of Victoria. Anglesey. Bourke. Dalhousie. Dundas. Evelyn. Follett. Grant. Grenville.
CLASSES AND SUB-CLASSES.
CLASS I.—Government—Persons engaged in the general and local government and defence of the country :
Sub-class 3. Army, navy, police—Warders, turnkeys, searchers, &c. 20 5 2 2 2
Sub-class 4. Women in Government employment—Messengers, office keepers, &c. 8 8
CLASS II.—Professional—Persons in the learned professions (with their immediate subordinate) not in the Government service :
Sub-class 1. Ministers, missionaries, scripture readers, and their subordinates, pew-openers, &c. 13 11
Sub-class 2. Physicians, surgeons, oculists, dentists, &c. 4 1 2 1
Sub-class 3. Dispensing chemists, sick nurses, hospital attendants, and others ministering to health in a subordinate capacity. 494 289 7 1 67 17
CLASS III.—Professional—Persons engaged in literature, fine arts, and sciences :
Sub-class 1. Teachers, schoomistresses, governesses, music teachers 1,684 7 785 46 19 10 2 272 76
Sub-class 3. Other professions—Authors, editors, photographers, musicians, &c. 143 1 70 1 14 9
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend money or goods :
Sub-class 1. Merchants 9 1 2 3
Sub-class 2. Shop and store keepers, dealers, hawkers, &c. 1,439 3 423 48 4 6 191 101
Sub-class 3. Bankers, brokers, accountants, commission agents, &c. 10 5 1 1 1
Sub-class 4. Assistants in shops, saleswomen, &c. 327 12 121 10 1 50 27
CLASS V.—Personal offices—Persons engaged in entertaining, clothing, and performing personal offices for man :
Sub-class 1. Inn and lodging-house keepers, barmaids, waitresses, &c. 1,523 5 527 88 3 1 5 160 94
Sub-class 2. Needlewomen, shoebinders, milliners, dressmakers, outfitters, &c. 3,971 2 2,077 77 21 9 555 178
Sub-class 3. Domestic servants (general), cooks, housemaids, &c. 18,796 65 8,767 600 160 94 31 2,509 815
CLASS VI.—Manufacturing—Persons engaged in art and mechanical productions, and in working and dealing in mineral, vegetable, and animal matters :
Sub-class 1. Contractors—Special branch in which they work being undefined 1 1
Sub-class 3. Brickmakers, road and railway laborers, &c. 7 1
Sub-class 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, &c. 29 21 1 4 1
Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, timber merchants, &c. 19 5 5 3 1
Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. 63 44 6
Sub-class 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c. 6 5
Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. 80 57 8 1
Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoal-burners, &c. 19 9 6
CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold :
Sub-class 1. Miners puddling 9 1
Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing 1
Sub-class 3. Miners quartz-raising 13 2
Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c. 5 1 1
Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking 70 2 11 12
Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. 45 2 8
CLASS VIII.—Agricultural and pastoral—Persons working land, and engaged in growing grain, fruits, animals, and other products :
Sub-class 1. Pastoral—Squatters, stockholders, graziers, sheep farmers, settlers, &c. 53 2 3 1 3 1 2 4 1
Sub-class 2. Pastoral—Shepherds, hutkeepers, station laborers, &c. 591 6 9 9 35 4 12 29 40