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The Census (Great Britain) Act 1900 ( 63 & 64 Vict. c. 4), long title An Act for taking the Census for Great Britain in the year one thousand nine hundred and one, was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, given the Royal Assent on 27 March 1900 and since repealed.
The first simultaneous census of the British Empire, covering the United Kingdom, India and the Crown Settlements, took place in 1881. The Census Act 1920 provides the legal framework for conducting all censuses in Great Britain (Scotland, England, and Wales).
The census in England, Wales and Scotland was legislated for by the Census (Great Britain) Act 1900. The England and Wales part of the census contains records for 32 million people and 6 million houses.
1901 News. First wireless signal transmitted. On 12 December 1901, Guglielmo Marconi was responsible for the first wireless signal to be transmitted across the Atlantic from Poldhu, Cornwall to Newfoundland. Aged only 27, facing much opposition and almost overwhelming difficulties, his success marked a turning-point in world-wide communication.
The Census (Great Britain) Act 1900 applied equally to England and Wales and to Scotland; it gave power to procure particulars relating to houses, and to the Sex, Age Condition as to Marriage, Occupation, Birthplace, Nationality of persons born in Foreign Countries, and certain Infirmities of the population; also the numbers of the Welsh ...
The 2011 census recorded the population of England as 53.0 million, Scotland as 5.3 million, Wales as 3.1 million, and Northern Ireland as 1.8 million. [30] At the last recorded population estimate, it was estimated that the UK population was at a total of 67,081,234 people.
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