Burma: Census of India 1901 Vol. I - Khamkoo

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APPENDICES).
(c) The agency employed.—There were in all nine Charge Superintendents, namely, one
Township Officer, one triyothugvij one akunwun, one Assistant Engineer, Railway Department,
and five Land Records Inspectors ; 73 Supervisors ; and 1,044 Enumerators. None of
these were paid. The Supervisors consisted of revenue surveyors and thugyis, and the
Enumerators consisted of villagers, and in Kyaukse town Government clerks. * *
Preliminary enumeration.—The preliminary enumeration was commenced on the
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15th of January and completed on the 15th February 1901. * * *
{e) Final enumeration.— * * * On the night fixed for the taking of the final
Census, the Enumerators visited each house and in many cases were accompanied by the
Supervisors. The head of each house was called, then the entries read over to him, arid
names erased or added where necessary. * * * Among the Charge Superintendents,
the Singaing Myook, Maung Tha Bu, Charge Superintendent of his 'township, and the
Akunwun, Maung Tun Ya, Charge Superintendent of the Kyaukse Municipality, took great
pains in Census work and deserve special commendation. * * 1 wish specially
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to commend U Po, T.D.M , Subdivisional Officer, Kyaukse, and Mr. Wakefield, my Chief
Clerk, on whom the brunt of the preparation for the Census in "the district fell. My
thanks are also due to Mr. Tilly, District Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Robinson,
Assistant Superintendent of Police, Myittha, for their willing assistance in checking the
Census work in the Myittha subdivision.
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(/z) Most of the people having been previously informed of the object and purpose of
the Census, their minds were not in any way disturbed and no difficulty was experienced in
taking the enumeration.
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People of every class willingly gave all the information required
by the Census officers, and consequently no prosecution under the provisions of the Census
Act was necessary. * * *
At the previous Census many headmen have informed me that the children and youths
in numerous instances were hidden in the jungle to avoid enumeration till after the Census
or, as the people in some cases believed, to avoid being enlisted as soldiers.
(i) No expenditure was incurred in the district in connection with the taking of 'the
Census.
(y) From the
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careful way in which the work of the Census was carried out all over the
district I have every reason to believe that the result obtained is as correct as it could possibly
be.
(/) Emigration and immigration.—There is no record in this office as to emigration
and immigration within the last ten vears.
From E. C. S. George, Esq., c.i.e., Deputy Commissioner, Meiktila, to the Superintendent, Census Operations,
Burma,— No. 1712. iC.—6, dated the 31st March 1901.
IN reply to your Circular No. 24 of 190 1, I beg to repo.t as follows
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(a) Everything was very late in this district and matters had to be rushed through at
great speed.
A kind of general register had been started, but early in December on arrival I found
that—
(a) the villages of the district had been numbeied serially throughout the district
(b) villages
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or rather hamlets which were not villages in the meaning of the Upper
Burma Village Regulation had received independent numbers
(c) the grouping of villages into circles was impe.fect, some circles consisting of 2
or 3 areas not contiguous, with other circles interposed. In Meiktila town
division into wards had not always followed natural features so as to be clear.
The whole therefore of Appendix A had to be revised.
(b) House-numbering.—There was little difficulty about this, as in previous years I had
insisted on the houses being numbered for the purposes of thatka//:eda-check\ng and the people
were well used
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to the system, the advantages being obvious in large villages even to the
people themselves. .
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I may mention that the best solution for painting numbers is lamp black off the
bottom of cooking pots mixed with earth-oil. Lime is useless; it easily gets obliterated and
was barred accordingly.