Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV, intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" : M. DCCC. XXI [1821].

  • General Register Office Northern Ireland
Date:
1822
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Credit: Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV, intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" : M. DCCC. XXI [1821]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    3d —HOW many other Houses are Inhabited ? 4th—WHAT Number of Families in your Parish, Township, or Place, are chiefly employed in and maintained by Agriculture, or by Trade, Manufacture, or Handicraft; and how many Families are not com- prized in either of the Two preceding Classes ? N. B.— The total Number of Families in Answer to this Question, must correspond with the Number of Families in Answer to the 1st Question; and if any Doubts shall arise as to the Class in which any Family or Families ought to be comprized, such Doubt is to be stated as a Remark (under Question 1th,) not omitting therein to specify in which Class such Family or Families may have been comprized in your Answer to the 4th Question. 5th—HOW many Persons (including Children of whatever Age) are there actually found within the Limits of your Parish, Township, or Place, at the Time of taking this Account, distinguishing Males and Females, and exclusive of Men actually serving in His Majesty’s Regular Forces, in the Old Militia, or in any embodied Local Militia, and exclusive of Seamen either in His Majesty’s Service, or belonging to Registered Vessels ? 6th—REFERRING to the Number of Persons in one thousand eight hun-* dred and eleven, To what Cause do you attribute any remarkable Difference in the Number at present? 7th—IF you are of Opinion that in making the preceding Enquiries (or at any Time before returning this Schedule,) the Ages of the several Indi- viduals can be obtained in a Manner satisfactory to yourself, and not inconvenient to the Parties, be pleased to state (or cause to be stated) the Number of those who are under 5 Years of Age, of those between 5 and io Years of Age, between 10 and 15, between 15 and 20, between 20 and 30, between 30 and 40, between 40 and 50, between 50 and 60, between 60 and 70, between 70 and 80, between 80 and go, between 90 and 100, and upwards of 100, distinguishing Males from Females;—And are there any other Matters which you may think it necessary to remark in Explanation of your Answer to this or any of the preceding Questions;—And in what Manner and to wliat Place of Residence and Post Office Town are Letters intended for you usually directed ? SIMILAR QUESTIONS had been asked under the authority of the Population Act of ]8oi ; excepting only that in the Acts of 1811, and 1821, the Question regarding u Uninhabited Houses” was divided, for the sake of distinguishing Unfinished Houses, and “therefore not yet Inhabited,” from Houses uninhabited from any other cause:— and excepting an Alteration in the Question regarding “ Occupations,” which in the Act of 1801 applied to Persons, but in those of 1811 and 1821 to Families. The additional Question of 1821, concerning Ages, will require particular notice in a subse- quent part of these Observations. The propriety of distinguishing New, but unfinished Houses, an indication of pros- perity,—from Houses in decay, or uninhabited from any other cause authorizing an opposite inference,—needs no explanation ;—and to have proceeded further, so as to have defined more exactly in the first question, What is to be deemed an inhabited House ? might have produced new difficulties, and would certainly have destroyed the power of comparison between the Returns of 1801, 1811, and 1821; yet unavoidable doubts have occurred