POPULATION.
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Area in
Inhabited houses,
Population,
Counties or Shires
statute acres
April 8, 1861
Aprils, 1861
Wales.
Carnarvon .
370,273
20,256
95,694
Denbigh
386,052
21,310
100,778
Flint ....
184,905
15,113
69,737
Glamorgan .
547.494
59,254
317,752
Merioneth .
385,291
8,499
38.963
Montgomery
483,323
13,501
66.919
Pembroke .
401,691
19,418
96,278
Radnor
Total of Wales
Total of England "1 and Wales J
272,128
4,688
25,382
4,734,486
226,074
1,111,780
37,324,883
3,739,505
20,066,224
The general classification of the population enumerated in England and Wales at the census of 1851 and that of 1861 was as follows: —
1. Professional class ....
2. Domestic ,,....
3. Commercial ,,....
4. Agricultural „
5. Industrial ,,.•..
6. Indefinite ,,
1851
1861
376,434 10,010,343
528,599 2,084,153 4,143,293
784,787
481,957 11,426.720
632,710 2,010,454 4,828,399
694,984
17,927,609
20,066,224
It will be seen that, of the five classes into which the population of England and Wales is divided by the Eegistrar-General, the agri- cultural class was the only one which decreased in the ten years from 1851 to 1861. The decrease was chiefly under the head of indoor farm servants, the number of which is stated to have declined from 288,272 in 1851 to 204,962 in 1861. In Essex the men are stated to have decreased from 1,530 in 1851 to 587 in 1861, and the females from 2,343 to 525 ; in Suffolk the men from 2,845 to 959, and the females from 3,640 to 1,215. The number of farmers them- selves, 249,735, was almost precisely the same in 1861 as in 1851. With regard to agricultural statistics, the information in the census returns is not given for all England, but only for 10 agricultural counties, and it would appear from these that the size of farms has increased in the 10 years from 1851 to 1861. The farms of less than 100 acres declined from 31,583 to 26,567, so that 4,016 were amalgamated to form other farms of larger acreage.
The population of England and Wales amounted to 9,156,171 in the year 1801, so that it has more than doubled in the course of half
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