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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

The municipal and parliamentary City of London, coinciding with the registration City of London, has an area of 675 acres, and in 1901 had a night population of 26,923, arid in 1911, 19,657. A day census of the City of London, taken on April 25, 1911, gave a population of 364,061. The previous day census, taken in 1891, gave atotal of 301,384. The registration County of London (the London for purposes of the Census, the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and for poor law puipOses), coinciding with the administrative county, has an area of 74,816 acres, and nearly coincides with the collective area of the London parliamentary boroughs. The population of registration London, of the 'Outer Ring,' and of ' Greater London,' (the area covered by the City and Metropolitan police), According to the census returns of 1891, 1901 and 1911, and the estimated civilian population in 1919, were : —

— 1891 1901

1911

1919

EeCistration London. ' Outer Ring'.

4,227,954 4,536,267 1,405,852 2,045,135

5,633,806 6,581,402

4,521,685 2,729,673

4,540,062 3,022,062

' Greater London' 1.

7,251,358

7,562,124

1 Area about 693 square miles.

Occupation statistics of the population in England and Wales aged 10 years and upwards in 1911 : —

-

Males

Females

Total

248,624

50,975

299,599

205, S17

205,817

367,578

347,043

714,621

387,677

1,734,040

2,121,717

2,062,710

151,321 I

2,214,081

Agriculture and Fishing

1,165,654

94,822

1,260,476

7,015,605

2,452,583 >


 * ',468,18S

Unoccupied and unspecified

2,208,585

10,026.879 ,

12,234,914

Total

18,662,200

14,857,113 [

2S,519,813

2. Scotland.

Area 29,797 square miles, including its islands, 186 in number, but ex- cluding inland water 609 square miles.

Population (including military in the barracks and seamen on board vessels in the harbours) at the dates of the several censuses : —

Date of Enumeration

Population

Pop. per gq. mile

Date of

Enumeration

Population

Pop. per sq. mile

1801 1811

1821 1831 1841 1851

1,608,420 1,805,864 2,091,521 2,364,386 2,620,184 2,888,742

54 60 70 79 88 97

1861

1871 1881 18M 1901 1911

3,062,294 3,860,018 3.735,573 4,025,647 4,472,103 4,760,904

100 111 126 185

150 160