DIRECTIONS 1901
General
Directions to thE eNUMERATOR AS TO THE USE OF THIS BOOK.
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1. Insert first, in the spaces at the top of the page, the name of the Civil Parish ; Ecclesiastical Parish ; County Borough, Municipal Borough, or Urban District ; Ward of Municipal Borough or of Urban District ; Rural District ; Parliamentary Borough or Division ; and Town, Village or hamlet, in which the houses referred to on that page are situated, drawing your pen through such of the headings as are inapplicable, see Example. No Schedule is to be entered on a page unless it belong to each of the local sub-divisions named in the Heading. See also Instruction No. 6. 2. In the first column, write the No. of the Schedule you are about to copy, commencing with No. 1 ; in the second column the name of the Road, Street, Square, &c., in which the house is situated, and the No. of the house, or any distinctive name by, which it is known ; then insert in the third column the figure 1 for an Inhabited House. As regards an Uninhabited House, i.e. a House in which no person abode on Census night, its number or name should be entered in column 2, and a figure 1 inserted opposite in column 4 if the house be in occupation for business or other purpose, but in column 5 if not in occupation for any purpose. For a house in course of building a figure 1 should be inserted in column 6. 3. Under the last entry for each house draw a strong DOUBLE line, as in the example on the opposite page, to separate such entries from those for the house next following ; and where there are two or more occupiers in the same house, draw a single line to distinguish the separate families, as in the example. [Note- The occupier of a separate tenement, even if living alone without wife or family, must be treated as a separate family.] 4. Insert in col. 7 against the name of each occupier the number of rooms occupied if less than five. 5. 5. Copy from the Schedule into the other columns all the particulars concerning the persons returned therein, without any omission, or any abbreviation except those authorised in the Instruction at the foot of this page, taking especial care to enter the ages of MALES and of FEMALES in their PROPER COLUMNS, and to copy from columns 6, 7 and 8 of the Schedules without any omission, alteration or abbreviation, into Columns 13, 14 and 15. |
6. When the particulars of all the Schedules belonging to the Civil Parish; Ecclesiastical parish; County Borough, Municipal Borough or Urban District ; Ward of Municipal Borough or of Urban District; Rural District; parliamentary Borough or Division; and Town, Village or hamlet named in the Heading have been entered; write across the page, “End of the Civil Parish of-,” “End of the Municipal Borough of-,” or end of any other local sub-division which happens to be included on that page. See the printed Example on page iii. The rest of the page must then be left blank, and the following Schedule must be entered on the first line of the next page. 7. At the foot of each page, on the line for the purpose, enter (a) the total number of Schedules; (b) of Houses in the respective columns 3, 4, 5 and 6 ; (c) of Tenements of less than 5 rooms ; (d) of Males in column 11; and (e) of Females in column 12, as in the example. 8. If you have enumerated any persons in Canal Boats or Barges, enter the particulars from the Schedules for Vessels in the same manner as from the Occupiers’ Schedules, stating in col. 2 the locality in which the boats, &c. were enumerated. 9. If you have obtained information and noted it in your Memorandum Book, respecting persons not dwelling in houses but in Barns, Sheds, Caravans, &c., the particulars, whether complete or not, should be entered under the proper Road, Lane, or other locality ; in making up the totals at the foot of that page, however, the Barns, Sheds &c., must not be counted as Houses. 10. Before proceeding to make up the Abstract on page v. satisfy yourself (1) that all your Schedules have been correctly copied in this Book, (2) that the ages have been correctly entered in columns 11 and 12 for males and females respectively, and (3) that the additions at the foot of each page are accurate ; then enter the totals in the Abstract and cast such figures to an aggregate for the Whole Enumeration District. Finally, fill up Summary Table 1 on page iv and sign the first Declaration on page vi. |
ABBREVATIONS TO BE USED BY THE ENUMERATOR. Road, Street, &C.-Write “Rd.”
for Road; “ |
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