SUMMARY BY ELECTORAL DISTRICTS—(FEMALES)., TABLE XV—Showing the Occupations of Females in each ELECTORAL DISTRICT
OCCUPATIONS. Total of Electoral Districts. West Melbourne. North Melbourne. East Melbourne. Emerald Hill. Sandridge. Williamstown.
CLASSES AND SUB-CLASSES.
CLASS I.—Government—Persons engaged in the the general and local government and defence of the county :
Sub-class 3. Army, navy, police—Warders, turnkeys, searchers, &c. 15 3 1 1
Sub-class 4. Women in Government employment—Messengers, office keepers, &c. 8 6 1
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. 12 1
Sub-class 2. Physicians, surgeons, oculists, dentists, &c. 4 1
Sub-class 3. Dispensing chemists, sick nurses, hospital attendants, and others ministering to health in a subordinate capacity 493 11 37 35 18 10
CLASS III.—Professional—Persons engaged in literature, fine arts, and sciences :
Sub-class 1. Teachers, schoolmistreses, governesses, music teachers, &c. 1,683 35 72 42 57 10 16
Sub-class 3. Other professions—Authors, editors, photographers, musicians, &c. 143 2 8 20 3 2 1
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend money or goods:
Sub-class 1. Merchants 9 1
Sub-class 2. Shop and store keepers, dealers, hawkers, &c. 1,430 24 37 46 26 17 12
Sub-class 3. Bankers, brokers, accountants, commission agents, &c. 10 1 1 1
Sub-class 4. Assistants in shops, saleswomen, &c. 325 6 13 17 4 4 1
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. 1,520 104 53 98 24 15 10
Sub-class 2. Needlewomen, shoebinders, milliners, dressmakers, outfitters, &c. 3,962 150 274 251 130 39 39
Sub-class 3. Domestic servants (general), cooks, housemaids, &c. 18,773 767 649 1,048 319 158 219
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
Sub-class 3. Brickmakers, road and railway laborers, &c. 7
Sub-class 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, &c. 29 2 1 1 1
Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, timber merchants, &c. 19 2 2
Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. 63 2 15 11 2 1
Sub-class 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c. 6 2
Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. 79 1 13 10 5 1
Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoal-burners, &c. 19 2 1
CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold :
Sub-class 1. Miners puddling 9
Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing 1
Sub-class 3. Miners quartz-raising 13
Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c. 5
Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking 70
Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. 45