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Census Taking
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
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When I accepted the suggestion of my friend, Mr. Woods, that I should open a discussion on this subject, I was in hopes that I should do so before the passage of the Bill for the Census of next year. As, however, that measure was added to the Statute Book at the end of last month, I have been compelled to approach my subject in a somewhat different manner. I shall, therefore, endeavour to set forth briefly my own views on the requisites of a successful Census and then examine the present Act to see how far the approaching Census promises to fulfil those conditions. That I shall have anything new to tell you, I do not for a moment expect, but I venture to hope that, as I regard the subject from a totally different standpoint to that which an actuary would adopt, I may be able to suggest points which will serve for an interesting, if not particularly useful discussion.
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page 343 note * The clause which is to amend section 34 of the Factory Act of 1895 proposes to enact that returns of all persons employed in factories and workshops shall be made to the Chief Inspector of Factories at intervals of “not less than one nor more than three years.”
The Secretary of State is to be empowered to specify the particulars to be included in such returns.
page 343 note † Public Health, xi, p. 36 (October 1899).
page 344 note * Transactions of Epidemiological Society, xviii, p. 175.
page 345 note * “Some Account of the Census from 1801 to 1881.”— Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, xxv, p. 83.
page 345 note † For the first time the Act applies to Scotland.
page 348 note * Preliminary Report and Tables, p. vi
page 348 note † Quoted by , Wilson, Public Health, xi, p. 766 Google Scholar.
page 350 note * Vide supra.
page 350 note † Section 4 (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.
page 350 note ‡ Section 7.—The Registrar-General shall, subject to the approval of the Local Government Board, obtain returns of the particulars required by this Act with respect to persons who during the night of the census day were travelling or on shipboard, or for any other reason were not abiding on that night in any house of which account is to be taken by the enumerators, and shall include these returns in the abstracts made under this Act.
page 350 note § Section 9.—The Registrar-General may, if he thinks fit, at the request and cost of the council of any county, borough, or urban district, cause abstracts to be prepared containing statistical information with respect to the county, borough, or district which can be derived from the census returns but is not supplied by the census report, and which, in his opinion, the council may reasonably require.
page 351 note * Vide Section 9, supra.