Burma: Census of India 1901 Vol. I - Khamkoo

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APPENI3ICES.
(6) House-numbering was commenced on the 15th November 190Q and completed on the
1 2th January 1 901 in all charges except Zigon town. The figures for. that charge are-^-
Commenced
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on the 5th February 1901. on the nth February 1901.
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Check by district officials showed that the most prevalent errors were—
(1) that the numbering became faint and indistinct.
(2) that the numbers were too small.
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(c) Agency employed.—There were employed 21 Charge Superintendents, 209 Supervisors,
2,643 Enumerators- At first it was thought that 12 charges would be sufficient in
addition to the one Railway and three Municipal charges, and the General Register was compiled
on that basis.
Subsequently it was necessary to form five additional charges.
Charge Superintendents included
Eight Myooks.
One Assistant Superintendent of
One Subdivisional Officer.
Police.
One Deputy Conservator of Forests.
Four Inspectors of Land Records.
One Deputy Inspector of Schools.
One Agent, Bombay Burma Trading
One Superintendent of Land Records.
Corporation.
One Municipal
Secretary.
Supervisors were principally drawn from the following classes
Clerks.
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Village headmen.
Revenue surveyors
Forest rangers (in forest tracts).
Ward headmen (in Towns).
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Ywathugyis.
Taiksayes.
Enumerators were chiefly
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Village headmen.
Police officers.
Ten-house gaungs.
Traders.
Clerks.
(d) Preliminary enumeration-—This commenced on the 15th January 1901 and was
not completed till the 22nd February 1901.
{e) I believe the final enumeration was extremely accurate. Few Census Officers slept
on the night'of the 1st of March. There was commendable activity and interest shown and
I know of only one case in which culpable negligence was shown.
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( f) Summaries.—The District Summary was commenced on the morning of the 4th
March 1901 and the provisional totals telegraphed to Rangoon and Calcutta at about noon on
the 6th March 1901.
The chief difficulty encountered was the absence of circle lists, which were in most cases
not sent with the charge and circle summaries.
Provision was made for including the preliminary figures of the following charges :
(i) Bombay Burma camp charge ;
(ii) Tharrawaddy Reserve forest charge ; and
(iii)
North Zamayi Reserve charge
in the provisional totals to be telegraphed to Rangoon and Calcutta, as it was feared
that the final figures would not arrive in time. The final figures, however, arrived in time to
be incorporated in all cases, except the North Zamayi Reserve.
(h) Two prosecutions were instituted under the Act.
(1) The expenditure on Census operations was as follows: —
Rs. A. P.
Pay of Census Clerk, 2nd January to 15th March 1901, at Rs. 25 ... 61 4 8
Travelling allowance of Census Clerk ... ... ... 3 14 o
Travelling allowance of officers not deputed on special duty, but travelling
solely for Census work ... ... ... 303 13 3
Total ... ... 368 15 11
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