Burma: Census of India 1901 Vol. I - Khamkoo

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APPENDICES.
There were 628 Enumerators, 588 being in the district and the remainder in the town,
and were drawn, from the cultivating class 198, ywathugyts 158, se-ein-gaungs 143 ;
traders
clerks, process-servers, office peons and yazawutgaungs constituted the remainder.
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{d) The preliminary enumeration.— * * * Dates of commencement and completion
of preliminary enumeration are given
below.
Commenced.
Completed.
Sandoway Township {char^No'
3
Sandoway town
Taungup township
Gwa township
13th January 1901 ...
20th December 1900...
1 st February 1 901
15th January 1901 ...
15th January 1901 ...
20th February 1901.
31st January 1901.
13th February 1901.
15th February 1901.
14th February 1901.
(e) The final enumeration.—The final Census on the night of 1st March came off without
a hitch. Many
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officials showed a creditable interest in the work. The Superintendents
and Supervisors were all out on that night checking and helping their Enumerators.
Boat enumeration and enumeration of travellers began on that night too and was carried
on up to the 3rd in distant places and the figures for these were incorporated in their respective
charge summaries. The schedules in the case of the British India Steam Navigation
steamer Karagola-j which were given out to the master at Kyaukpyu, were collected here.
The following Charge Superintendents, Supervisors, and Enumerators have been selected
for special commendation :
Charge Superintendents.
Maung Tha Aung, Myook, Gwa.
Maung Kin, District Surveyor.
Mr. Godfrey, Superintendent of Land Records.
Maung Kyaw Min, Akunwun.
Supervisors.
Maung Shwe Tha, Sergeant of Kyeintali.
Maung Ta Daing, Clerk, Gwa Myook's Court, for helping to prepare charge summaries.
Maung Shwe 0, Thugyi 5 of Lintha.
Po Kin.
San Baw.
Shwe Daik.
Enumerators.
Maung Kyaw of Shwenyaungbin.
Maung Shwe Bye") r r ,.
Maun|MyatPu | ofKmmaw '
Maung Shwe Yin of Peindawgale.
Maung Si Laung of Pazunpye.
Maung Aung Min of Kyaiktaw.
Maung Tha Nu of Sandoway.
Maung Ba Thin, clerk.
Maung An of Sandoway.
(/) The enumerators' abstracts were all more or less prepared on the morning of the 2nd
March after the taking of the final census. These abstracts were checked with the schedules
by the Superintendents and Supervisors and the whole finally submitted to the district office
by the 6th March. * * * The district totals were then made out and the result telegraphed
to you and the Commissioner of Census, Calcutta, so as to reach by the 7th. * *
ig) There was no non-synchronous census record for this district. * * *
(h) There were no prosecutions sanctioned under the provisions of the Census Act. *
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i) The expenditure incurred on account of transmitting the Census paper and schedules
to the Charge Superintendents and by them to the District office was Rs. 104-12-0. * *
(/) The result of the census in this district may be accepted as fairly correct.
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The vital statistics for the past ten years ending December 1900 show 30 107 births
and 19,342 deaths.
From W. H. A. St. J. Leeds, Esq.,i.c.s., President. Rangoon Municipality, to the Superintendent, Census
Operations, Burma,—No. 215-23, dated the 27th May 1901.
I HAVE the honour to submit the following report in connection with the Census operations
in Rangoon.
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