The number of inhabited houses in England and Wales in 1891 was 5,451,497; uninhabited, 372,184; building, 38,387; against 4,831,519 inhabited; 386,676 uninhabited; and 46,414 building in 1881.

Assuming that the population of urban sanitary districts is urban, and the population outside such districts rural, the following table shows, according to the figures of the preliminary census report, the distribution of the urban and " rural population of England and Wales in 1891, and their percentage of increase during the decennium 1881-1891 :

From these figures it appears that 22 per cent. of the population of England and Wales live in six towns of upwards of 250,000 inhabitants; 31.6 per cent. (in 1881, 29.6 per cent.) in 24 (in 1881, 20) towns of over 100,000 inhabitants; 40 6 per cent. in 62 towns of over 50,000 inhabitants; 53.2 per cent. in 182 towns of over 20,000 inhabitants; and 17,826,347, or 61.5 per cent. in 358 towns of over 10,000 inhabitants. In 1881, 14,626, 131, or 56.3 per cent. of the whole population, lived in 303 towns of over 10,000 inhabitants.

More than one-fourth of the total urban population, and nearly oneseventh of the total population of England and Wales are concentrated in the metropolis. The limits of the metropolis were defined by the RegistrarGeneral, in the census returns of 1891, as consisting of an Inner Ring' and an Outer Ring,' the former subdivided into a 'Central Area' and 'Rest of Inner Ring.' The following table gives the results of the censuses in 1881 and 1891 :

The population of registration London in the middle of 1897, was 4,463,169; in the middle of 1898, as estimated by the Registrar-General, it was 4,504,766; of the 'outer ring,' 1,903,555; total (or 'greater London '), 6,408,321.

The night population of the City of London in 1891 was 37,694 (50,652 in 1881); the day population in 1891 was 301,384; in 1881 it was 261,061. The following is the division of the population aged 10 years and upwards in England and Wales according to occupation in 1891 :

Scotland has an area of 29,785 square miles, including its islands, 186 in number, with a population (including military in barracks and seamen on board vessels in the harbours), according to the census of 1891, of 4,025,647 souls, giving 135 inhabitants to the square mile.

The following table exhibits the numbers of the population of Scotland at the dates of the several censuses, together with the density per square mile:

The country is divided into 33 civil counties, grouped under eight geographical divisions. The following table gives the results of the census, excluding the military in barracks and the seamen on board vessels in the harbours, on April 5, 1891 :

The number of inhabited houses in Scotland in 1891 was 817,568; uninhabited, 51,460; building, 5,618.

According to parliamentary or police burghs, the population of the larger towns in 1891 was distributed as follows:—

According to registration districts, the population of the principal towns of Scotland was as follows at the Census of 1891 and in the middle of 1898, as estimated in the Registrar-General's Report :

At the Census of 1891 the population of Glasgow, parliamentary and suburban, was 658,198, and the increase (1881-1891) 13.9 per cent.

The total population of these nine towns represented nearly two-fifths of the population of Scotland. In 1881 the total town population was 2,306, 852; in

In 1891 the town

the village population, 447,884; and the rural, 980,837. population was 2,631,291, showing an increase of 14'06 per cent.; the village population was 465,836, the increase being 4.01 per cent.; and the rural 928,513, there being a decrease of 5.33 per cent.

The occupations of the people, according to the census of 1891, were as follows:

Ireland has an area of 32,531 square miles, or 20,819,982 acres, inhabited, in 1891, by 4,704,750 souls. The following table gives the population of Ireland at different census periods, with the density per square

mile :

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The subjoined tables give the results of the enumerations in the four provinces of April 3, 1881, and of April 5, 1891, together with the decrease, in numbers and rate per cent., between 1881 and 1891 :

The area and the population of the counties of the four provinces of Ireland at he census of April 5, 1891, are given in the following table :

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