OCCUPATIONS OF FEMALES, 1891.,—SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS., TABLE LXXII.—Showing, according to the Census taken on the 5th April, 1891, the Number of Females (exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines) at various Periods of Age of different Occupations is Classified Arrangement.—continued.
| Class. |
Order. |
Sub-order. |
Occupations. |
Total. |
Number of Females at each Period of Age. |
| Under 5 Years. |
5 to 15 |
15 to 20 |
20 to 25 |
25 to 45 |
45 to 65 |
65 and Upwards. |
Unspecified. |
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PROFESSIONAL—continued. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| I. |
2 |
7 |
Schoolmistress, teacher |
2,171 |
|
27 |
763 |
669 |
510 |
181 |
15 |
6 |
|
|
|
Governess |
2,268 |
|
5 |
332 |
729 |
1,039 |
129 |
29 |
5 |
|
|
|
Teacher of languages, special subjects, or accomplishments (not art or music) |
81 |
|
|
7 |
13 |
44 |
13 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
Others ministering to education, including scholastic agent, truant officer |
3 |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
8 |
Artist, painter |
178 |
|
3 |
23 |
48 |
88 |
15 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
Engraver |
2 |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Photographer, photographic colourist |
157 |
|
2 |
48 |
62 |
39 |
4 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
School of design—lecturer at ; art teacher |
41 |
|
|
2 |
7 |
29 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Art student |
40 |
|
|
16 |
12 |
12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Others ministering to fine arts |
6 |
|
|
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
9 |
Musician, vocalist |
148 |
|
10 |
33 |
44 |
52 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
Music mistress, including teacher of singing |
1,417 |
|
|
245 |
411 |
606 |
134 |
18 |
3 |
|
|
|
Others ministering to music, including musical composer, musical student, &c. |
18 |
|
|
16 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
Actress |
170 |
|
6 |
39 |
64 |
58 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Theatre proprietor, lessee, manager, doorkeeper, ticket-taker, assistant |
6 |
|
|
|
2 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Race-course caretaker |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Skating rink attendant |
3 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Billiard table—proprietor |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Others ministering to amusements, including exhibition assistant, equestrienne, &c. |
4 |
|
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
DOMESTIC. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| II. |
3 |
1 |
Hotel-keeper, hotel-keeper's wife assisting |
1,331 |
|
|
149 |
48 |
598 |
485 |
46 |
5 |
|
|
|
Coffee palace, house—keeper, manager, secretary, wife assisting |
23 |
|
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
13 |
|
|
|
|
|
Boarding, lodging house—keeper, wife assisting |
1,646 |
|
|
15 |
50 |
702 |
759 |
113 |
7 |
|
|
|
Restaurant, eating house—keeper, wife assisting |
76 |
|
|
1 |
8 |
40 |
27 |
|
|
|
|
|
Others enagaged in boarding, lodging, and entertaining, including caterer, oyster-room proprietor or assistant, tea gardens manager, "boarding children," &c. |
26 |
|
|
6 |
|
16 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
Servants' registry office—keeper, assistant |
52 |
|
1 |
|
3 |
22 |
24 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
Housekeeper |
2,877 |
|
11 |
88 |
402 |
1,506 |
783 |
80 |
7 |
|
|
|
Lady help, lady's companion |
455 |
|
4 |
68 |
151 |
188 |
33 |
10 |
1 |
|
|
|
Domestic or lodging-house servant |
29,700 |
|
1,603 |
9,401 |
8,954 |
7,192 |
2,249 |
215 |
86 |
|
|
|
Inn, club, coffee house, restaurant—servant |
4,535 |
|
55 |
1,134 |
1,675 |
1,618 |
26 |
5 |
22 |
|
|
|
Office—keeper, cleaner |
76 |
|
2 |
3 |
8 |
32 |
27 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
Charwoman |
442 |
|
|
3 |
13 |
198 |
205 |
22 |
1 |
|
|
|
Bath keeper, attendant |
12 |
|
|
2 |
|
4 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
Professed cook (not servant) |
158 |
|
|
2 |
|
95 |
57 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
Laundry keeper, assistant ; washer woman, manager |
982 |
|
|
49 |
160 |
206 |
527 |
38 |
2 |