1 In 1901, but subsequently to the census, the areas of 9 County Boroughs were extended. Their area and population, as extended, were: Blackburn, area 7,418 ac., pop. 129, 216; Bournemouth, area 5,769 ac., pop. 59,762; Bristol, area 11,976 ac., pop. 289,599; Derby, area 5,272 ac., pop. 114,848; Liverpool, area 14,912 ac., pop. 702, 247: Manchester, area 13,533 ac., pop. 543,872; Sheffield, area 28.662 ac, op. 409,070; South Shields, area 2,399 ac., pop. 100,858; Stockport, area 6,492 ac., pop. 92,882.

County boroughs created since 1901 are Rotherham, area 6,012 acres; population 54,349; West Hartlepool, area 2,684 acres, population 62,627.

The number of inhabited houses in England and Wales in 1901 was 6.266.496; uninhabited, 449,396; building 62,286; against 5,451,497; uninhabited, 872,184; building, 38,387 in 1891.

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 1881 and 1901, and their percentage of increase during the decennium 1801-1901 :

From ties tyres it means that in 1900 24 percent of the population of England and Wales iwer in towns of upwards of 250 000 inhabitants (London, Lough netmadingoroughs, beng combed as ee)); 10 per cent. in 24 towns

of over 100,000 and under 250,000 inhabitants; 10 per cent. in 42 towns or over 50,000 and under 100,000 inhabitants; 14 per cent. in 141 towns of over 20,000 and under 50,000 inhabitants; 9 per cent. in 219 towns with over 10,000 and under 20,000 inhabitants; and nearly 10 per cent. in 687 towns with less than 10,000 inhabitants. The total urban population comprised 77 per cent. and the rural 23 per cent. of the population. In 1891 the proportions were respectively 75 and 25 per cent.

The municipal and parliamentary City of London has an area of 672.7 acres, and in 1891 had a population of 37,702; in 1901, 26,923. The registration City of London has an area of 678 3 acres, and in 1891 had a population of 38,481; in 1901, 27,684. The registration County of London, coinciding with the administrative county and the school board district, has an area of 74,839 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,' or the metropolitan and City police districts, according to the census returns of 1891 and 1901, and the Registrar-General's estimates for the middle of 1904, was :

The following is the division of the population aged 10 years and upwards in England and Wales according to occupation in 1901 :

Scotland has an area of 29,796 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 1901, of 4,472, 000 souls, giving 150 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 preliminary results of the census, including seamen on board vessels in the harbours, on March 31, 1901:

The areas given above are exclusive of inland water, covering altogether 609 square miles.

The number of inhabited houses in Scotland in 1901 was 926, 914; uninhabited, 59, 420; building, 9,062.

The following table shows for 1891 and 1901 the population in towns with over 2,000 inhabitants, in villages with from 300 to 2,000 inhabitants, and in rural districts, with the proportion of each to the total population :--

In the towns the population increased in the ten years, 1891-1901, 18.58 per cent.; in the villages, 005 per cent.; in the rural districts it decreased 4.60 per cent., the increase in the whole country being 11.09 per cent.

The land area of the principal towns and the population at the census of 1901 and estimated for the middle of 1904, were as follows:

The occupations of the population aged 10 years and upwards, according to the census of 1901, were as follows:

Ireland has an area of 32,605 square miles, inhabited, in 1901, by 4,458,775 souls. The following table gives the population of Ireland at different census periods, with the density per square mile :

The subjoined tables give the results of the enumerations in the four provinces of April 5, 1891, and March 31, 1901, together with the decrease, in numbers and rate per cent., between 1891 and 1901:—

The area and the population of the counties of the four provinces of Ireland at the census of March 31, 1901, are given in the following table :