Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29
JOHN BULLS CENSUS
Will Be Taken Like q Flash All Com
plete Next Sunday Night.
A MARVELLOUS SYSTEM IN VOGUE.
The Cost Will Be Only Tenth Of What
Uncle Sam Pays Out
IT'S DONE In SMALL SUBDIVISIONS

1t is the taking of the census of the U Unltee
Kingdom, and it is accomplished with
nickel-in-the-slot rapidity that challenges
even the admiration of a shrewd hustler from
America. The method Of taking the census
possesses great interest for the people of tht
United States, as offering striking COM
parison with the slow and unsatisfactory
methods of enumerating the American
people.
On Sunday night, April 5, the Briton:
will pass through the turnstIle of their tenth
decennial classification. The next morning
the record will be made up. On the evening
of the same day it will be delivered to Son.
erset House, to be assorted and labeled, and
all the work will be effected with marvellous
perfection of organization by which Great
Britain is made to stand still for minute
and be photographed. So consummate Is
the skill with which was planned that all
embracing machinery, that at one and the
same moment, all over the United Kingdom,
the recording pen will catch and set down
every mans status.
Tenth of the Cost to Us.
All preparations for the stupendous work
are completed. Blanks are ready to be dis
trbuted, and the United Kingdom has been
divided up into 40, 900 districts. 1t is esti-
mated that the total cost of the work will be
less than 500, 600. while for the same work
in America nearly 81 100000 was appro-
priated by Congress. An American tabu-
lating machine will be used to obtain totals.
The census will be intrusted by the Home
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thorty in the different parts of the United
Kingdom. In England and Scotland the
duty will deyolve upon the English and
Scotch Registrars General; IN ireland to a
Royal Commission presided over by the Irish
Registrar General, and in the islands-which
consists of two groups. the Isle of Man in the
Irish Sea, and the chsnnel islands, Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, Heron, Sark, Jethon
and Brechon-the enumeration will be made
under the superintendence of the respective
Lieutenant Governors. according to in
structioHs issued by the Registrar General
of England. In England and Wales the
census staff will consist OF the employees of
the General Registry Office, the superin-
tendent registrars in their districts, the
registrars and the enunerators. There are
626 superintendent registrars districts in
England and Wales, which are subdivided
into 2,195 sub-districts, each having local
registrar of births and deaths.
The Division Into Sub Districts.
While the boundaries of the parishes or
townships are to be taken as the basis upon
which to frame the division into su0-dis-
tricts, strict attention is paid to the various
local subdivisions, SO that the number of
their houses and inhabitants might afterward
be readily and accurately ascertained.
Where parish or township is sufficient to
form of itself distinct enumeration dis
trict, it is assigned to one enuInerator; and,
as general rule, it is assumed that where
the enumerator will not be required to travel
more than Is miles in visiting smaller
number OF houses in the country, the dis
trict is not too large.
The enumerators are required 10 be intel
ligent and active, able to read and write
we'll and have some knowledge of arithme-
tic; they are not to be younger than IS years
of age or older than 65; they are to be re-
spectacle persons, likely to conduct them
selves with strict propriety and civility in
the discharge of their duties. and we'll ac-
quainted with the district in which they are
to act.
The enumeration in Scotland will be car
ried ON in the same manner, under its own
Registrar General. In Ireland the enumer-
alton will be effected altogether by the Off
GERS and men of the constabulary force,
whose local knowledge renders them partic-
ularly well suited for the undertaking.
Counting in Public Institutions.
Public institutions, such as county jails,
convict prisons reormatories, workhouses,
hospitals, barracks and lunatic asyIums,
whose inmates exceed 200 persons, are treated
as separate enumeration districts, and the
governor or principal resident officer is ap-
pointed the enumerator. The smaller insti-
tutIons are treated as ordinary houses, and
the particulars regarding their inmates OBJ
tanned bv the district enumerators In the
usual way.
The enumeration Of persons on board mer-
chant vessels, fishing smacks and other craft
in the ports, docks, creeks and rivers is ac-
complished by the officers of Her Majesty's
customs. Schedules, duly filled by the
masters, are obtained in the case of the YES
sells in part on the census day; and on the
arrival of every home-trade and coasting
vessel within the ensuing month, inquiries
will be made in order TO ascertain whether
the census has been given in any port in the
United Kingdom, and If not, the master will
be requested to fill up a schedule. All the
returns collected by the officers Of Her
Maiesty's customs in England will be trans
mitted direct to the central Office.
The Army and Navy.
The information about seamen and others
on board vessels in the royal navy, at home,
will be supplied pursuant TO instructions
addressed by the Lords of the Admiralty to
the officers in command of Her Majesty's
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made, under directions of the commander
in-chief OF the British army, distinguishing
officers from non-commissioned officers, and
rank and file by the commanding, officer of
every regiment, or battalion OF the British
army, at home or abroad, showing the ages.
county of birth, and whether single, mar
ried or wldowers; also the numbers and ages
OF the wives and children of soldiers.
In order to secure the enumeration of per-
sons on board boats, barges and other craft
In inland waters, not within the jurisdiction
OF the officers of customs, such vessels will
be visited on the census morning and the
required particulars obtained from the
master or person In charge, either bv the
ordinary enumerator or by person specially
employed for the purpose.
Inc enumerators Will be directed to make
dillgent inquiry for the purpose of ascertain
Ing the number of persons not in any dwell
Ing house on the census night, but sleeping
in barns, sheds, caravans, tents, ETC., or in
the open air, and to enter such particulars
as may be obtained respecting them in
form provided for the purpose.
Citizens Fill Out the BIankA
The first duty of the enumerator is to
deliver, in the course of the week preceding
the census day, to every occupier OF house
or tenement householder's schedule, to be
filled up by or on behalf of such occupier,
under penalty OF a5 In case of default,
with the required particulars concerning
himself and family. Particulars called for
are of sex. age, conjugal condition, relation
to head Of family, profession, birthplace and