Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV: Intituled, "an Act . and of the Increase or Diminution Thereof

Excerpt from Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV: Intituled, "an Act for Taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution Thereof

HE act which was carried into effect in the Year 1801, for taking an Account Of the population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof, - having now been repeated in the Years 1811 and 1821, a Comparison of the Results of these National. Investigations seems to be required, nor only as the Population Abstracts of 1801, 1 81 1, and 1821, may hereafter be referred to in connection with each other, but because a large volume, consisting chiefly of Names and Figures, cannot be readily and efiectually consulted Without such previous Explanation as may serve to shew the Method and Order pursued in digesting and connecting the Subject-matter of the enumeration Abstract and of the PA rish-register Abstract and in so doing on the present occasion, the observations prefixed to the volume of 1811 will be repeated with Such alterations and additions as have become necessary from another Repetition of the Population Act, which aii'ords a further Comparison of Results, and contains a new Enquiry regarding. The ages of persons.

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