THE CENSUS.
The census to be taken on the night of the 2nd of April next, will be the seventh in this country. It will onlylie the second occasion on which the whole population has been enumerated in one day. Although it is impossible to predict with any accuracy the exact numerical strength of the people, it is believed the forthcoming returns will show that the population of our islands is little short of 31,000,000. As the people numbered only a little over 16,250,000, in 1801, it will be seen how powerful Great Britain and Ireland have become in the number of their inhabitants since the time of the Union. Every arrangement has been made to have the census taken as accurately as possible. About 33,000 enumerators will be employed at home, while English subjects upon their travels will be made objects of particular attention by officials who will co-operate in the work abroad. It has been resolved that the qualification for a place in the eensus is to be -alive at midnight on the 2nd of April. Any person dying before midnight, or any infant born after midnight will, therefore not be included in the (numbering of the present decade.— "'English Paper,"
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 815, 20 May 1871, Page 3
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203THE CENSUS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 815, 20 May 1871, Page 3
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