| Show THE BRITISH CENSUS ox ON the night of the ath lost inet the tenth decennial census of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland was waa taken the process brodess by which this work is performed by the britons in IB as near perfection as possible within the short period of 24 hours material was accumulated for abr the compilation of statistics for ton ten years in all the british isles inks when glanced at easefully eare fully uie ess seems very simple the united kingdom is in divided for this purpose into districts and the cost will not exceed while the same work in the united states costs over the home secretary has baa charge of the whole procedure in england and scotland under hie direction re the registrars general perform the work in ireland a royal commission presided over by the irish registrar general the census the smaller islands are divided into two groups groupe the isle of man in the irish sea flea and the channel islands jersey guernsey alderney heron and ana JUru uon respective spec tive lieu lieutenant tenant governors of these groups attend to the enumeration under the supervision of the registrar general of england though the boundaries of parishes and towns are taken generally as the basis of districts yet great care la Is observed in not complicating arcon or confounding one with the other this to is done so that in case of any future trouble the district can be checked without causing disorder of any kind great attention is paid to the various local subdivisions to in the matter of boundary lines if the parish is of the extent suitable for one enumeration division it is so portioned for census purposes the qualifications for RD an enumerator are intelligence Intelli Rence honesty and respectability he must be between the years of 18 and 65 he must be acquainted with the district ar and ad bupt conduct himself civilly and courteously in england scotland and wales the persons employed in registrars general department usually attend to the census also in ireland the police attend to the enumeration public institutions where the inmates number over are portioned off as census districts with governors or other principal executive officers as am district enumerators the officers of her Maje majesty s customs attend to the enumeration of persons employed in nautical work schedules duly filled by the masters of all vessels in port on the night of the ath dinst were collected by customs officers and ana every vessel arriving in port for a mouth month after will be investigated vesti gated as to census matters toe the army and navy are attended to by their respect respective iver officers even provision was made for ascertaining the number of houseless walls in the united kingdom on the night of the ath the first duty of the enumerator was to deliver in the course of the week preceding census day to every mccu ot 0 a house or tenement a householders schedule to be filled up by or on behalf of such occupier the required particulars failure to comply is with a penalty of 25 the particulars called for relate to sex age conjugal condit conditto tn profession birthplace anti and in ireland the language spoken the religion professed and the ability to read andl write every person resident in the house on the he night of april 5 must be recorded if any member of the family is absent his bis or her name must not be recorded unless in the case of a person empl employed at night and who returns in the morning on the morning of the jtb the enumerators visited their districts collected the schedules and then forwarded them to the proper quarter it Is expected that early IQ in may a tabulation will be completed and the standi landing standing Dg of the united kingdom in a stati way will be known the enumerator receives a fixed fee of five dollars and about sixty cents for every persons recorded in large lane d districts mileage is allow allowed 01 the history of we the british census proper dates back little more than a century it was on march 1758 that mr potter the M P for st german introduced a bill in the house of commons for the taking of a census of the people and for ascertaining a few other particulars the bill met the most virulent opposition mr thornton abe member for york said 1 I did not believe that there was any set of menor menior indeed any individual of the human species so presumptuous and ao abandoned as to make the p proposal r 0 1 we have just heard I 1 hold th this in pr project era I 1 to be to totally y subversive 0 of the last t remains of english h liberty the new bill will direct the imposition tion of new taxes and indeed the ad addition tion of a very few words will make it the most effective engine of rapacity and oppression that was ever used agaid against an injured people moreover an annual register of our people will acquaint our enemies abroad with our weakness mr matthew rid ridley ley member for newcastle on tyne said that the people looked upon the proposed census re as ominous and feared a public misfortune or an epidemical distemper would follow the numbering the bill however passed the commons but the lords throw threw it out in november 1800 1600 the bill was win again introduced and became law the first official census was taken on march 10 1801 and a decennial census has been regularly taken since the enumerations of 1801 1811 1821 and 1881 we imperfect A reform was introduced in 1841 and every subsequent census since has ban been marked by improvements until that of 1891 which it to is said will be the most perfect of its kind ever performed in any age or in any country |
