Burma: Census of India 1901 Vol. I - Khamkoo

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APPENDICES.
(d) Preliminary enumeration commenced at the middle of January and was generally completed
by the 15th February. * * * I found an extreme reluctance to make a beginning
on the printed
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forms ; in Tilin township all the entries were first made on spare paper and
were all checked by the Charge Superintendent before transfer to the printed forms.
(e) All the Charge Superintendents took a keen interest in their work.
(/ ) Maung Po Hla, Subdivisional Officer, Pakokku, was put in charge of the special
work of preparation of the district summary.
The preliminary figures were adopted for the Gangaw, Tilin, Pasok, and Seikpyu charges.
(h) There were no prosecutions ; the attitude of the people was generally one of absolute
indifference. In Pakokku town, I was told, some of the low class natives of India gave trouble
by reluctance to answer questions.
(z ) The total cost of the operations was Rs. 149-6-0, comprised as follows:
Rs. A. P.
(1) Cart and cooly hire, &c. ... ... 50 14 o
(2) Freight 100
... ... ... ...
(3) Travelling expenses ... ... ... 97 80
(/) It is possible that a few travellers escaped Census, but I should put the proportion as
low as 1 per cent.
Census Report for the Minbu District by H. S. Pratt, Esq., i.c.s., Officiating Deputy Commissioner.
(a) General Register, Form A.— The first 100 copies were received on the 17th April.
On the 25th April a manuscript form of list of villages was sent to Subdivisional Officers with
instructions for verification on the 7th June. General Register, Form A, with Census map
and instructions, were sent to the Subdivisional Officers to verify and fill in omissions.
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Census Circular No. 8 of 1900, regarding circle lists, was received on the 7th September.
* * * Circle list forms were received on the nth October 1900. Circle lists
and maps were prepared and sent to the Subdivisional Officers, to be given to the Charge
Superintendents, on the 20th October.
I consider it was a mistake to attempt to prepare the general register in the district
office in the rough. Had the Subdivisional Officers been instructed to draw up the register
for their subdivisions at first instead of being asked to revise an erroneous and in some cases
misleading list, the preparation of the register would have been completed much earlier
than it actually was and would probably not have had to be returned. * * *
(b) House-numbering. Circular No. 10 of 1900 and Chapter 7 of the Census Code were
received on the 5th October 1900 and issued with instructions to Subdivisional Officers on
the 1 8th October 1900. No difficulty was experienced in house-numbering as all houses
had been numbered in 1899 f° r general purposes, and all that was necessary in most cases
was to revise and re-arrange existing numbers.
The numbering of houses began in October and was completed in December.
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(d) 7 he preliminary envmtration.— In the Sidoktaya township and in a large portion
of tr.e Salin township the preliminary Census was made roughly on parabaiks long before the
receipt of the schedules, so that where
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this had been done, when the schedules came the
entries had merely to be copied into them and the preliminary Census was complete. This
was also done in places in the Minbu subdivision.
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The preliminary Census began in the rural tracts in the beginning of January and was
completed about the middle of February.
(e) The final enumeration began on the 1st March at dusk and was completed before
daybreali in all instances.
The Salin Municipal charge summary, circle summaries, and block abstracts and schedules
were received at Minbu on the 3rd March. The charge summary for Salin township,
north and south, came in on the 4th March and the 6th March
; Minbu town, 7U1 March ; Sagu
7th March; Ngape, 9th March and Le gain
; g, toth March. It will be seen that the whole of the
summaries in the Salin subdivision were received in Minbu before anv for the Minbu subdivision.
Even the figures for Sidoktaya, where arrangements for provisional totals, if necessary,
had been made, were in good time. * * * Of Charge Superintendents by
far the best work was done by Maung Aung Kho, Additional Township Officer, Salin, who
was in charge of the operations for Salin town, and Maung Shwe Pon, Land Records Inspec-