The number of inhabited houses at the census of 1901 was 858,,158 against 870,587 in 1891, 914,108 in 1881, and 961,380 in 1871. The decrease in the decennial period 1891-1901 amounted to 14 per cent.

Of uninhabited houses, there were 74,321 at the census of 1901, and 69,320 in 1891, the increase in number having been 7.2 per cent.; in 1901 there were 2,536 houses building; in 1891 there were 2,602. The civic population in 1901 was distributed as follows:

In Ireland, in 1901, there were six county boroughs with population as follows:-Dublin, 290, 638; Belfast, 349, 180; Cork, 76, 122; Limerick, 38,151; Londonderry, 39,892; Waterford, 26,769.

The population was divided as follows according to occupation in 1901 :—

The population of the Islands in the British Seas was found to be as follows at the census of April 1, 1901 :—

The following were the numbers of the population of the Islands at each of the four censuses of 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901 :—

The Registrar-General's estimate of the population in the middle of each year is based on the assumption that the rate of increase which prevailed in the intercensal period immediately preceding, has since been maintained.

The proportion of illegitimate births to the total births in 1903 was 3.9 per cent., having gradually diminished from 7 per cent. in 1845. The minimum rate in 1902 was 2.6 per cent. in Essex, and the maximum 6.6 in Herefordshire. The percentage for London was 3.6. The births and deaths are exclusive of still-born.

The proportion of male to female children born in England

during 1902 was as 1,039 to 1,000. But as the former suffer from a higher rate of mortality than the latter, the equilibrium between the sexes is restored in the second year of life, and is finally changed to the proportion of 1,000 females, of all ages, to 936 males in England and Wales.

The average proportion of illegitimate births in 1903 was 6.1 per cent., the rate varying from 3.6 per cent. in Dumbartonshire, to 12.3 in Wigtownshire, and 127 in Elginshire. The proportion of male to female births in Scotland in 1903 was 1,040 to 1,000.

The average proportion of illegitimate births in 1903 was 2.6 per cent., the rate varying from 0.5 in Connaught to 3.3 in Ulster. The proportion of male to female births in Ireland in 1903 was 1,051 to 1,000.

2. Emigration and Immigration.

In 1815 there were only 2,081 emigrants from the United Kingdom to countries out of Europe; but in the six years 18151820, the total number was 123,528, and in the thirty-eight years 1815-1852, 3,463,592. Up to 1852 the emigration returns made no distinction between British subjects and foreigners;

but from 1853 onwards the number of emigrants of English, Scotch, and Irish origin, and the total number, including foreigners, are given as follows:

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The destination of the emigrants, natives of the United Kingdom and foreigners, in the year 1904, is shown as follows::

The following table shows the destinations of British and Irish emigrants to, and the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom to places out of Europe in each of the last four years:—

Of the British and Irish emigrants in 1903, 157,660 were male and 102,290 female; of the total, 284,470 were male and 164,536 female.

In the year 1903 there were from countries out of Europe, 199,685 immigrants, British and foreign, which, deducted from the total of 449,006 emigrants, left an excess of 249,321 emigrants. The number of immigrants of British or Irish origin in 1903 was 112,914, which, deducted from the total