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. Prahran. Richmond. Sandhurst.
Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
CLASSES AND SUB-CLASSES.
CLASS I.—Government—Persons engaged in the general and local government and defence of the country :
Sub-class 1. Officers of general government—Ministers of state, judges, resident magistrates, clerks, surveyors, &c. 89 61 22
Sub-class 2. Officers of local government—Municipal officers, district road board officers, &c. 4 6 5
Sub-class 3. Army, navy, police—Warders, turnkeys, searchers, &c. 43 35 66 1
Sub-class 4. Workmen in Government employment—Messengers, office keepers, &c. 8 19 5
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. 4 9 16
Sub-class 2. Physicians, surgeons, oculists, dentists, &c. 19 11 36
Sub-class 3. Dispensing chemists, sick nurses, hospital attendants, and others ministering to health in a subordinate capacity 14 27 17 28 35 17
Sub-class 4. Lawyers—Barristers, attorneys, conveyancers, &c. 34 16 14
Sub-class 5. Law clerks, law stationers, official assignees, bailiffs, law court officers, &c. 52 49 15
CLASS III.—Professional—Persons engaged in literature, fine arts, and sciences :
Sub-class 1. Teachers, schoomistresses, governesses, music teachers, &c. 31 72 24 60 19 36
Sub-class 2. Architects, civil engineers, surveyors (land), draughtsmen, &c. 17 27 14
Sub-class 3. Other professions—Authors, editors, photographers, musicians, &c. 22 2 39 6 34 21
CLASS IV.—Trading—Persons who buy, sell, keep, or lend money or goods :
Sub-class 1. Merchants 62 24 15
Sub-class 2. Shop and store keepers, dealers, hawkers, &c. 89 26 134 28 271 43
Sub-class 3. Bankers, brokers, accountants, commission agents, &c. 127 86 92
Sub-class 4. Commercial clerks, assistants in shops, storemen, saleswomen, &c. 218 6 257 18 175 14
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. 34 10 57 22 98 70
Sub-class 2. Tailors, shoemakers, dressmakers, outfitters, hatters, &c. 81 141 125 193 156 136
Sub-class 3. Domestic servants (general), cooks, housemaids, &c. 135 701 60 516 149 547
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 11 7 14
Sub-class 2. Masons, bricklayers, slaters, hodmen, plasterers, &c. 92 130 126
Sub-class 3. Brickmakers, road and railway laborers, &c. 98 119 83
Sub-class 4. Blacksmiths, whitesmiths, founders, &c. 112 1 128 3 178
Sub-class 5. Builders, carpenters, timber merchants, &c. 240 273 1 250
Sub-class 6. Cabinet makers, furniture dealers, carvers and gilders, turners, &c. 24 2 61 4 39 4
Sub-class 7. Coach and cart makers, wheelwrights, implement makers, &c. 26 45 55
Sub-class 8. Other artisans and mechanics, printers, bookbinders, coopers, &c. 64 2 179 10 134
Sub-class 9. Tanners, fellmongers, soapboilers, woolsorters, charcoalburners, &c. 35 102 1 15
CLASS VII.—Gold mining—Persons engaged in digging for, washing out, and extracting gold :
Sub-class 1. Miners puddling 555
Sub-class 2. Miners sluicing 3
Sub-class 3. Miners quartz-raising 1 4 192
Sub-class 4. Miners quartz-crushing, amalgamating, &c. 1 1 48
Sub-class 5. Miners alluvial sinking 3 4 1,070 1
Sub-class 6. Miners (branch of gold mining undefined), diggers, &c. 11 13 888
Sub-class 7. Mining surveyors, officers of mining companies, members of mining boards (not otherwise returned) 11
Sub-class 8. Engineers, engine-drivers, and stokers to mining engines, &c. 1 22
Sub-class 9. Carters of washing stuff, slabbers, &c. 4