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TASMANIA.
The census of February 7, Tasmania as follows : —
1870, showed the population of
Males Females
Total
Total
Married
Single
52,853 46,475
15,665 15,498
37,188 30,977
99,328
31,163
68,165
The population of Tasmania at the preceding census, taken April 7, 18G1, was 89,977. Comparing the census of 1870 with that of 1861, there was an increase of 9,351 souls, or 10*39 per cent. The difference between the number in the census of 31st March, 1857, and that of 7th April, 1861, was 8,485, or 10*41 per cent., so that the increase of population was only about half as rapid as it was at the date of the previous census. On the 7th February, 1870, the proportion of males to females was 113*72 to 100: on the 7th April, 1861, it was 122*80 to 100.
The following statement gives the trades and professions of the population according to the census of February 7, 1870 : —
Per 1,000
Merchants and bankers
Legal profession ....
Medical profession
Clergymen .....
Army and navy ....
Proprietors and occupiers of sheep and cattle
Farmers, — proprietors and occupiers
In Government employ
Schoolmasters and mistresses
Retail dealers, including hawkers .
Artisans and mechanics
Domestic servants, male ' .
T . fFarm
Labourers < .-.,,
pother
Licensed victuallers
Seafaring persons
Unclassified ....
farms
3*24
2*25
2*57
4*09
5*37
18-87
15371
19-53
5*81
36-59
142*07
31*35
327*47
117*55
12-96
27*92
88-65
Distributed according to religious tenets, the population stood as follows at the census of 1870 : —
Per cent. . 53*41 . 22*24 . 6*69 2-43 . 3 96
Church of England Church of Rome . Church of Scotland Free Church ditto. Independents
At the census of 1861, the number of persons returned as belonging to the Church of Engand was 54*72 per cent, of the whole population ; to the Church of Koine 21*60 per cent. ; so that, while
Baptists
Wesleyan Methodists .
Jews .
Mahomedans or Pagans
Other Sects .
Per cent. 0*94 7*23 0*23 0*004 2*86
