Census of England & Wales, 1931 : general report.

  • General Register Office Northern Ireland
Date:
1950
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Credit: Census of England & Wales, 1931 : general report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ® NOTE This Report is the concluding volume of the series for the 1931 Census of England and Wales. Though much of the contents had been written in 1936, completion was delayed by the need to showed the changes caused by the alteration of county districts under the Local Government Act, 1929, and the last volume of which was not published until 1940. Before this task was con- cluded, the approach of war required all available staff to be employed on the preparations for the establishment of the national registration system. The war-time restrictions on printing and normal activities made any progress with the present volume out of the question. At the end of the war considerable arrears of publications of all kinds had accumulated and this obliged the General Register Office to work to a scheme under which the arrears would be overtaken while pace was kept with the full programme of current publications. Accordingly, this volume has been further delayed by the more urgent need to issue the annual Statistical Reviews for the war years. Nevertheless, without this General Report the story of the 1931 Census would be incomplete. The commentary, which has not been published elsewhere, possesses historical value and will be of assistance to those responsible for the planning and execution of future censuses of population. Although the passage of time has naturally set a different complexion upon some of the matters discussed, it has been thought right to retain the text as originally written.: The whole of the 1931 Census original records, together with much of the associated material, were totally destroyed in an outbreak of fire in 1942. This has precluded any further reference to original Census documents. General Register Office, Somerset House, WC 2; September, 1949. il
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