Volume 1

Census of England and Wales, 1901 (63 Vict. c.4.).

  • Great Britain. Census Office.
Date:
1902-04
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Credit: Census of England and Wales, 1901 (63 Vict. c.4.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EE APPENDIX B. Census (Great Britain) Act, 1900. [63 Vict. Ch. 4.] e ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. Section.—1. Census to be taken in 1901. Bs . Central authority for and expenses of census. Enumeration districts and enumerators. Preparation and filling up of schedules. Collection, correction, and copying of schedules. Enumeration in public and charitable institutions. . Returns of persons travelling or on shipboard or not in houses, Abstracts of returns, 55 9. Power to supply further abstracts to local authorities. ‘a 10. Matters to be prescribed by instructions. oS 11. Penalties for offences. 9 12. Application to Scotland. a 18. Extent of Act and short title. CHAPTER 4. An Act for taking the CENSUS for GREAT BRITAIN in the year one thousand nine hundred and one. : [27th March, 1900. ] Be it enacted by the Qreen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. A census for Great Britain shall be taken in the year one thousand nine hundred and one, and the census day shall be Sunday the thirty-first day of March in that year. 2.—(1.) The Local Government Board shall superintend the taking of the census. (2.) The Registrar-General shall, subject to the approval of the Board, prepare and issue such forms and instructions as he deems necessary for the taking of the census. (3.) The expenses incurred, with the approval of the Treasury, for the purposes of the census, shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament. 8.—(1.) For the purposes of the census every registration sub-district shall be divided into enumeration districts, and an enumerator shall be appointed for each enumeration district. (2.) Overseers of the poor and relieving officers for poor law unions shall, if so required by the Local Government Board, act as and be enumerators for the purposes of this Act. 4,.—(1.) Schedules shall be prepared by or under the direction of the Local Government Board for the purpose of being filled up by or on behalf of the several occupiers of dwelling-houses, with the following particulars, and no others, namely, particulars showing— (a) the name, sex, age, profession or occupation, condition as to marriage, relation to head of family, birth-place, and (where the person was born abroad) nationality of every living person who abode in every house on the night of the census day ; and (b) whether any person who so abode was blind or deaf and dumb, or imbecile or lunatic; and (c) where the occupier is in occupation of less than five rooms, the number of rooms occupied by him ; and (d) in the case of Wales or the county of Monmouth, whether any person who so abode (being of three years of age or upwards) speaks English only or Welsh only, or both English and Welsh. (2.) Every enumerator shall in the course of the week ending on the Saturday next before the census day leave at every dwelling-house within his enumeration district one or more of these schedules for the occupier thereof or of any part thereof, and on every such schedule shall be plainly expressed that it is to be filled up by the occupier for whom it is left, and that the enumerator will collect all such schedules within his district on the Monday then next following. (3.) Every occupier for whom any such schedule has been so left shall fill up the schedule, to the best of his knowledge and belief, so far as relates to all persons dwelling in the house, tenement, or apartment occupied by him, and shall sign his name thereto, and shall deliver the schedule so filled up to the enumerator when required so to do. Say (4.) In this section the expression * dwelling-house” shall include every building and tenement of which the whole or any part is used for the purpose of human habitation, and where a dwelling- house is let or sub-let in different tenements or apartments and occupied distinctly by different persons or families, a separate schedule shall be left with or for and shall be filled up by the occupier of each such distinct tenement or apartment. ji (5.) For the purposes of this section, a person who is travelling or at work on the night of the census day, and who returns to a house on the morning of the following day, shall be treated as abiding in that house on the night of the census day. 5.—(1.) Every enumerator shall visit every house in his district, and shall collect all the schedules so left within his district, from house to house, and so far as may be possible on the day next following the census day, and shall complete such of the schedules as on delivery thereof to him appear to be defective, and correct such as he finds to be erroneous, and shall copy the schedules, when completed and corrected, and shall furnish a return, avcording to the best information which he is able to obtain, of all the persons present within his district on the night of the census day, but not included in the schedules collected by him. é A.D. 1900, A.D. 1900, Census to be taken in 1901. Central authority for and expenses of census, Enumeration districts and enumerators. Preparation and filling up of schedules. Collection, correction, and copying of schedules,