Builders 91
Houses unoccupied 89
Tallow-chandlers 87
Marine store Dealers 75
Saw-mills 67
Firework Makers 66
Warehouses 63
Chemists 62
Coachaakers 50
Warehouses (Manchester) 49
Public Buildings 46

If we look at the mere number of fires irrespective of the size of the
industrial group upon which they committed their ravages, houses would
appear to be hazardous according to the order in which we have placed
them. Now, this is manifestly absurd, inasmuch as private houses
stand at the head of the list, and it is well known that they are the
safest from fire of all kinds of tenements. Mr. Brown, of the Society
of Actuaries, who has taken the trouble to compare the number of fires
in each industrial group with the number of houses devoted to it, as
far as he could find any data in the Post-office Directory, gives the
following average annual percentage of conflagrations, calculated on a
period of fifteen years:--

Lucifer-match makers 30.00
Lodging-houses 16.51
Hatmakers 7.74
Chandlers 3.88
Drapers 2.67
Tinmen, Braziers, and Smiths 2.42