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Census of England and Wales, 1911 (10 Edward 7 and 1 George 5, ch. 27.).

  • Great Britain. Census Office.
Date:
1912-23
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Census of England and Wales, 1911 (10 Edward 7 and 1 George 5, ch. 27.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    =’, TABLE C,—PERSONS PER SQUARE MILE, sn eienneninin EE EEE EE ——————————————————————— England and Wales, 618. London kes a ae | 38,680 Somersetshire A ss a 283 Middlesex... te bye | 4,848 Sussex, West tee ves a 281 Lancashire ... AAP He ey 2,554 - Devonshire ... wid eF oY 268 Glamorganshire ... es 2h] 1,383 Oxfordshire ... aid $s wes] 265 Durham ie “id ay ee 1,350 Cambridgeshire he nak oe| ecco Surrey ay a on bas 1,172 Lincolnshire: Lindsey ... se 244 Staffordshire 5 i Sty 1,158 Norfolk ey. “f Ase 5 243 Warwickshire an2 ote Sel 1,147 Cornwall... saa Wie iu 242 Yorkshire (W.R.)_ ... ca wool ' 7,099 Dorsetshire ... soe uy nee 228 Cheshire oie 4 vee] 931 Carnarvonshire ue ies aed 219 Essex... ie ts + geal 883 Denbighshire a Ae Ce 217 Monmouthshire... fe ei 725 Wiltshire... oe tt: ai 212 Nottinghamshire 4s if 716 Lincolnshire: Holland... Bet 197 W orcestersiiire +i ait et 703 Yorkshire (N.R.)... tt AE} 197 Kent... ay ore aS “kal 686 Suffolk, West ies ae aia 191 Derbyshire... ae AN tka) 673 Isle of Ely ... es oie bos 188 Isle of Wight “te: a Pe 599 Anglesey ... = vay a 185 Sussex, East... ... AK es 588 Shropshire ... id e 5, 183 Gloucestershire —... A aed 585 Cumberland ... aS f 5h 175 Southampton me es sea] 576 Carmarthenshire... wes a 174 Leicestershire | 572 Lincolnshire: Kesteven... NSP 1438 Soke of Peterborough nl 535 Huntingdonshire... te ust 152 Hertfordshire at ‘ey 492 Pembrokeshire 5 oN | 146 Bedfordshire... ron at 5H 411 Herefordshire 5 fa oad aval 136 Berkshire... ore see a4 375 Rutlandshire “en a ian 134 Yorkshire (H.R.) ... rs par 369 Cardiganshire Op ois ap] 86 Flintshire... i Ay ca 364 Brecknockshire ah rs that 81 Northumberland ... A peal 345 Westmorland We a2] 81 Northamptonshire ... eat 449 382 Merionethshire Ss ts a 69 Suffolk, Hast... Aer a ae 318 Montgomeryshire ... de ve 67 Buckinghamshire ... “Hs es 293 Radnorshire ... st Ae nt 48 Definition of Population—Before proceeding to discuss further the results of the recent census, it will be desirable to state precisely what is meant by the population of a given area in English census reports. The population of any area in this country has always meant the population actually present within its boundaries at the date~ of the census. Thus the population enumerated at midnight on Sunday, April 2nd, 1911, in the several areas into which England and Wales is divided, includes private residents, both permanent and temporary, the inmates of institutions and other large establishments, the military population, the vagrant population, and the persons on board vessels which were in the ports on census night, or which arrived there on the following day. The only exceptions made were in the cases of persons engaged in night work, or who were travelling on the night of the census; such persons were counted as belonging to the population of the place at which they arrived on Monday, April 3rd. In various other countries, such as France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Dominion of Canada, particulars are obtained not only of the number of persons actually present in each area at the census date (de facto population), but also of all the inhabitants of each area whether present or not, to the exclusion of persons usually living in other areas but who happen to be within the area in question on the census date (de jure population). The latter form of enumeration would be of great value for a number of purposes, and the arguments in its favour have lately been strengthened by the intro- duction of a similar de jwre method of enumeration of births and deaths instead of the simpler, but in many cases misleading, de facto form of enumeration previously followed in their case, The difficulties in the way, however, are very considerable, the chief perhaps being those of defining temporary and habitual residence clearly and compre- hensively, and of securing intelligent observance of such definitions on the part of householders when filling up the schedules. Moreover, seeing that the enumeration is taken in this country both at an hour in the day and at a season of the year when persons are mostly in their own homes, it is probable that, with the exception of some few holiday resorts, the actual and the resident populations are closely approximate. __ _, Population and Rates of Increase—The total number of persons returned as living in England and Wales at midnight on Sunday, April 2nd, 1911, was 36,070,492. The difference between the first and the final count. of the total population has never been material in any recent census; in the present instance the unrevised total published in the Preliminary Report exceeded the final count by 4,777. The revised
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