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Now the total number engaged in gainful occupations in 1900 

 was 29,074, 1 1 7, and 1 1 .9 per cent of 29,074, 1 1 7 gi 

 as the number which, under the conditions existing in 1870, 

 should have been found in the agricultural class in 1900 in 



1 This 11.9 per cent does not mean that there was a <i 



the number of those engaged in agriculture, but only relatively* and in this sense : 



hereas the number of those engaged in agriculture increased during the 



from 1870 to 1900, the increase was so much less than in the other occu- 



c lasses that this particular class failed, by a number equal to 11.9 per cent 



til number engaged in gainful occupations in 1900, to maintain its former 



proportion. A similar remark applies to each one of the other cases w ' 



c number appears. The decrease in the class of those engaged in m.mu 

 in the Western division is due th.it. under 



the classification used, miners and quarrymen are included in that occupation 

 class. In 1870 these workers constituted a high proportion of the total number 

 engaged in gainful occupations in that division. 



