SUMMARY BY ELECTORAL DISTRICTS—(FEMALES).TABLE XV.—Showing the Occupations of Females in each Electoral District.
OCCUPATIONS. Maryborough. Castlemaine. Creswick. Sandhurst. Avoca. Mandurang. Maldon.
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. 1 1
Sub-class 4. Women in Government employment—Messengers, office keepers, &c.
CLASS II.—Professional—Persons in the learned professions (with their immediate subordinates) not in the Government service :
Sub-class 1. Ministers, missionaries, scripture readers, and their subordinates, pew-openers, &c.
Sub-class 2. Physicians, surgeons, oculists, dentists, &c.
Sub-class 3. Dispensing chemists, sick nurses, hospital attendants, and others ministering to health in a subordinate capacity 2 17 10 18 8 9 6
CLASS III.—Professional—Persons engaged in literature, fine arts, and sciences :
Sub-class 1. Teachers, schoolmistresses, governesses, music teachers 11 53 61 42 24 36 18
Sub-class 3. Other professions—Authors, editors, photographers, musicians, &c. 6 21 4 1
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend money or goods :
Sub-class 1. Merchants 1 1 1
Sub-class 2. Shop and store keepers, dealers, hawkers, &c. 26 84 104 49 65 59 21
Sub-class 3. Bankers, brokers, accountants, commission agents, &c. 1 1
Sub-class 4. Assistants in shops, saleswomen, &c. 4 19 7 14 5 10 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. 27 55 73 74 47 66 18
Sub-class 2. Needlewomen, shoebinders, milliners, dressmakers, outfitters, &c. 31 149 134 159 85 66 27
Sub-class 3. Domestic servants (general), cooks, housemaids, &c. 145 575 635 631 251 328 121
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
Sub-class 3. Brickmakers, road and railway laborers, &c. 1
Sub-class 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, &c. 2
Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, timber merchants, &c. 2 1
Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. 2 4 2 2
Sub-class 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c.
Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. 1 3 3 1
Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoalburners, &c. 1 2
CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold :
Sub-class 1. Miners puddling 4 1 2
Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing
Sub-class 3. Miners quartz-raising 1 4 3 1
Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c. 1 1
Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking 3 11 1 3 6 1
Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. 3 7 2 7 2