Census of the British Empire: compiled from official returns for the year 1861, with its colonies and foreign possessions ... Arranged alphabetically, numerically, and comparatively as an analysis of the census returns. Part I, England and Wales.

  • Coke, Charles Anthony.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Census of the British Empire: compiled from official returns for the year 1861, with its colonies and foreign possessions ... Arranged alphabetically, numerically, and comparatively as an analysis of the census returns. Part I, England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ENGLAND AND WALES. A.D. 1861. ►ENGLAND and WALES, INHABITANTS, Enumerated in the Census of 1861 INCREASE of POPULATION in 10 years, 1851-61 Computed ANNUAL INCREASE, A.D. 1861 „ Weekly „ „ .. f> Daily » » .. BIRTHS, Registered in the year 1861 Weekly Average ,, .. ,, „ Daily „ „ .... SEhJiBSi, Registered in the year \%Q\ „ Weekly Average ,, .. „ Daily „ „ .... EXCESS of BIRTHS in the year 1861 .. MARRIED in the year 1861 ,, Weekly Average .. ., ., ,, Daily Inhabitants 20 06G 224 2 138 G15 245 000 4 7U 673 695 624 13 377 1 911 435 293 8 371 1 196 260 331 327 490 6 298 900 If the EMIGRATION from ENGLAND AND WALES (as stated by the Emi- gration Commissioners) averages about 60 000 a-year, and if we take the computed annual increase of the population as above to be 245 000, and the annual excess of Births over Deaths, as determined by the Registrar-General (Major George Graham) to be 260 000, it follows that somewhere about 45 000 persons may be set down every year as neW COmers from other countries;—this number probably is not so great, owing to the registration of Births not being compulsory by the English Registration Statute. In proportion to population 5 Irish emigrate to 1 English; 3 Irish to 1 Scotch; and 2 Scotch to 1 English. HOUSES enumerated in 1861 and 1851. Date of each Census. HOUSES. Inhabited. Uninhabited. Building. 1861 (April 8th) 1851 (March 31st) 3 739 505 3 278 039 184 694 153 494 27 305 26 571 Increase in 10 years Increase per ceut. .. 461 466 14 -1 31 200 20-3 734 2-8 Between tl»e Census of 1861 and 1851, in 10 years, tlie INHABITED HOUSES increased 14 '1 per cent.; in the same period the INHABITANTS increased but H '9 per cent.; showing a difference of 2'2 per cent, more house accommodation than 10 years ago: and in tliis we notice the progress in our social well-being, to supply the increasing requirements of advancing civilization. * Official Census, 1861, and the Iteglstrar-General's Betums of Births, Deaths, and Marrinccs in En((1and for ]861.