Summary of Cities, Towns, and Boroughs, with Proportions.—Orders., TABLE XVI.—Showing the Number of Persons, Males, and Females at all Ages, and under and over Twenty Years of Age, of different Occupations, arranged in fifteen orders, living in Cities, Towns, and Boroughs on the 2nd April 1871, and the Proportions per Cent. of those of each order to the Total of the same column.
Class. Order. Occupations (arranged in fifteen orders). Numbers.
Persons. Males. Females.
All Ages. Under 20 Years. Over 20 Years. All Ages. Under 20 Years. Over 20 Years. All Ages. Under 20 Years. Over 20 Years.
TOTAL POPULATION OF CITIES, TOWNS, AND BOROUGHS 374,150 187,598 186,552 190,425 91,517 98,908 183,725 96,081 87,644
TOTAL OF SPECIFIED OCCUPATIONS 372,167 187,213 184,954 189,376 91,369 98,007 182,791 95,844 86,947
I. 1 Persons engaged in the general or local government, or the defence or protection of the country 2,488 81 2,407 2,456 81 2,375 32 32
I. 2 Persons engaged in the learned professions, or in literature, art, science (with their immediate subordinates) 7,482 1,269 6,213 4,605 504 4,101 2,877 765 2,112
II. 3 Persons engaged in the domestic offices or duties of wives, mothers, mistresses of families, children, relatives, (not otherwise returned) 221,408 157,627 63,781 75,030 74,810 220 146,378 82,817 63,561
II. 4 Persons engaged in entertaining and performing personal offices for man 22,999 7,432 15,567 4,909 548 4,361 18,090 6,884 11,206
III. 5 Persons who buy and sell, keep or lend money, houses, or goods of various kinds 9,837 1,238 8,599 9,074 1,162 7,912 763 76 687
III. 6 Persons engaged in the conveyance of men, animals, goods, and messages 8,471 1,100 7,371 8,445 1,098 7,347 26 2 24
IV. 7 Persons possessing, working, or cultivating land ; raising or dealing in animals ; or following pursuits subsidiary thereto 6,885 911 5,974 6,634 838 5,796 251 73 178
V. 8 Persons engaged in working and dealing in art and mechanic productions in which matters of various kinds are employed in combination 17,569 2,949 14,620 17,178 2,877 14,301 391 72 319
V. 9 Persons working and dealing in textile fabrics, dress, and in fibrous materials 18,174 5,531 12,643 8,174 2,010 6,164 10,000 3,521 6,479
V. 10 Persons working and dealing in food and drinks 9,813 1,959 7,854 9,135 1,888 7,247 678 71 607
V. 11 Persons working and dealing in animal and vegetable substances 3,581 770 2,811 3,506 736 2,770 75 34 41
V. 12 Persons working and dealing in minerals 25,664 2,714 22,950 25,636 2,710 22,926 28 4 24
VI. 13 Laborers and others (branch of labor undefined) 9,886 1,009 8,877 9,810 981 8,829 76 28 48
VI. 14 Persons of property and rank not returned under any office or occupation 883 11 872 594 8 586 289 3 286
VI. 15 Persons supported by the community and of no specified occupation 7,027 2,612 4,415 4,190 1,118 3,072 2,837 1,494 1,343
Occupation not stated 1,983 385 1,598 1,049 148 901 934 237 697