SUMMARY OF CORPORATE TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES—(MALES AND FEMALES)., TABLE XVI.—Showing the Occupations of the Males and Females in each Corporate Town and Municipality.
OCCUPATIONS. Total of Corporate Towns and Municipalities. Amherst.
Persons. Males. Females. Males. Females.
CLASSES AND SUB-CLASSES.
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. 157 153 4
Sub-class 2. Pastoral—Overseers on stations, stockmen, shepherds, station laborers, &c. 179 172 7 2
Sub-class 3. Agricultural—Farmers and market gardeners (masters), farmers' wives, &c. 1,576 1,310 266 19 9
Sub-class 4. Agricultural—Farm laborers and farm servants, gardeners (laborers) 2,031 1,911 120 26 1
Sub-class 5. Cattle dealers and sale-yard keepers, seedsmen, farriers, pound-keepers, &c. 918 909 9 8
CLASS IX.—Carrying—Persons engaged in the conveyance of men and goods :
Sub-class 1. Goods traffic chiefly—Carriers, draymen, bullock-drivers on roads, lightermen, &c. 2,725 2,716 9 18
Sub-class 2. Passenger traffic chiefly—Owners and drivers of coaches, cabs, &c., watermen, railway employes, &c. 1,360 1,357 3 2
Sub-class 3. Water carters, woodmen, firewood splitters, &c. 234 231 3 4
Sub-class 4. Porters and messengers (not assistants in shops or stores) 452 451 1 1
Sub-class 5. Engaged in sea navigation—Sailors, ship stewards and stewardesses, &c. 948 945 3
CLASS X.—Persons dealing in food and drinks :
Sub-class 1. Animal food chiefly—Butchers, poulterers, fishmongers, &c. 2,866 2,516 350 26 3
Sub-class 2. Vegetable food chiefly, and drinks—Bakers, confectioners, greengrocers, wine and spirit merchants, &c. 4,071 3,671 400 28 2
CLASS XI.—Miscellaneous pursuits—Persons engaged in occupations not embraced in other classes :
Sub-class 1. Laborers (undefined or unconnected with any of the foregoing pursuits) 4,207 4,199 8 8
Sub-class 2. Wood-splitters, fencers, grubbers, bushmen, &c. (otherwise undefined) 138 137 1 2
Sub-class 3. Other occupations—Proprietors of labor offices, billiard-table keepers, newspaper runners, &c. 524 490 34 7
CLASS XII.—Independent means—Persons of property and rank, not returned under any office or occupation :
Sub-class 1. Persons deriving income from houses —Householders, house proprietors, &c. 594 475 119
Sub-class 2. Annuitants, "Independent means," persons of rank (source of income undescribed) 318 176 142
Sub-class 3. Gentlemen, ladies (not otherwise described) 149 114 35
CLASS XIII.—Persons engaged in domestic offices or duties, and of no specified occupation, scholars, &c.:
Sub-class 1. Wives and widows (of no specified occupation) 36,225 36,225 297
Sub-class 2. Sons, daughters, relatives, visitors, &c. (aged 15 years and upwards) 8,400 309 8,091 29
Sub-class 3. Sons, daughters, relatives, visitors, &c. (under 15 years of age 46,862 22,192 24,670 189 213
Sub-class 4. Scholars, whether at public or private schools, or at home 34,790 17,688 17,102 137 111
CLASS XIV.—Persons maintained at public cost, or by the community :
Sub-class 1. Prisoners 992 850 142
Sub-class 2. Patients in hospitals, asylums, depots, &c. 1,781 1,276 505 8
CLASS XV.—Persons whose pursuits have not been specified, or who were unemployed, &c. :
Sub-class 1. Unemployed, "no occupation at present," paupers, &c. 2,943 2,449 494 5
Sub-class 2. Occupation not stated 669 498 171 6
Sub-class 3. Doubtful or indefinite pursuits 315 4 311
Sub-class 4. Unemployed by reason of sickness, exclusive of patients in hospitals, &c. 729 662 67 5
Sub-class 5. Unemployed by reason of accident, exclusive of patients in hospitals, &c. 189 185 4 1
Sub-class 6. Deaf and dumb, or blind 120 76 44
Total 235,301 127,696 107,605 1,314 766