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JUST twelve months ago (NATURE, August 26, 1920, p. 797) we directed attention to the effect of the Census Act of last year in facilitating the work of the Registrar General and his colleagues on the census, which was then appointed to be made in. April of the present year, and to the value of the information that the census might be expected to afford. Effect was duly given to the provisions of the Act by an Order in Council made on December 21, 1920, fixing the date of the census for April 24; but when that day arrived the coal dispute and the strikes which were then threatened in the railway and transport industries gave rise to doubts whether the work could be successfully carried out as intended, and a further Order in Council was obtained fixing it for June 19, when the enumeration accordingly was made. It reflects great credit on the officers responsible for the work that they have been able so soon to publish a preliminary Report (Cd. 1485) containing in adequate detail the broad features that are presented by the figures. We must await the future Reports for much of the information that we referred to in our previous article as desirable, but in the meantime this preliminary Report may be consulted with interest and profit.
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The Census of 1921. Nature 108, 1–2 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108001a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108001a0